And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.(2 Samuel 18:5)

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;(2 Samuel 18:6)

Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.(2 Samuel 18:7)

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.(2 Samuel 18:9)

And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.(2 Samuel 18:10)

And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.(2 Samuel 18:11)

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2 Samuel 18:8 - Cross Reference

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. (Joshua 10:11)

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. (Psalm 3:7)

They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. (Judges 5:20)

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. (1 Kings 20:30)

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. (Psalm 43:1)

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. (Exodus 15:10)