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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 18:9 — 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.
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Riding furiously under the thick boughs of a great oak, which hung low and had never been cropped, either the twisted branches, or some low forked bough of the tree, caught him by the neck, or, as some think, by the loops into which his long hair had been pinned, which had been so much his pride, and was now justly made a halter for him. He may have hung so low from the bough, in consequence of the length of his hair, that he could not use his hands to help himself, or so entangled that his hands were bound, so that the more he struggled the more he was embarrassed. This set him up as a fair mark to the servants of David; and although David would have spared his rebellious son, if his orders had been executed, yet he could not turn the sword of Divine justice, in executing the just, righteous sentence of death on this traitorous son. 2Sa 18:14; 2Sa 14:26; 2Sa 17:23; Mat 27:5 |
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Deu 21:23; Deu 27:16,20; Job 18:8-10; Job 31:3; Psa 63:9,10; Pro 20:20; Pro 30:17; Jer 48:44; Mar 7:10; Gal 3:13 |
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2Sa 18:14 |
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he [was] yet alive in the midst of the oak. |
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2Sa 14:26 |
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight. |
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2Sa 17:23 |
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. |
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Mat 27:5 |
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. |
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Deu 21:23 |
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance. |
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Deu 27:16 |
Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
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Deu 27:20 |
Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
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Job 18:8 |
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. |
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Job 18:9 |
The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him. |
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Job 18:10 |
The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. |
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Job 31:3 |
[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity? |
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Psa 63:9 |
But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth. |
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Psa 63:10 |
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. |
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Pro 20:20 |
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. |
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Pro 30:17 |
The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. |
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Jer 48:44 |
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, [even] upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. |
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Mar 7:10 |
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: |
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Gal 3:13 |
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree: |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 18:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/18/9.html>.
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