7. And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.
8. The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.
9. And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.
10. And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
11. Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”
12. But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’