8. The fighting spread over the whole country. That day the woods devoured more people than the battle.
9. Absalom happened to come face to face with some of David’s men. He was riding on a mule, and the mule went under the tangled branches of a large tree. Absalom’s head became caught in the tree. So he was left hanging in midair when the mule that was under him ran away.
10. A man who saw this told Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.”