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Jerome's Latin Vulgate

4 Regum 18:9

Accidit autem ut occurreret Absalom servis David, sedens mulo: cumque ingressus fuisset mulus subter condensam quercum et magnam, adhæsit caput ejus quercui: et illo suspenso inter cælum et terram, mulus cui insederat, pertransivit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Absalom;   Ephraim;   Gilead;   Mule;   Oak;   Thompson Chain Reference - Absalom;   Animals;   Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Mules;   Oaks;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Trees;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death of the Wicked, the;   Mule, the;   Oak-Tree, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahimaaz;   Joab;   Mule;   Oak;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Joab;   Trees;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mule;   Oak;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fox;   Mule;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Heaven;   Samuel, Books of;   Terebinth;   Transportation and Travel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abishai;   Joab;   Mule;   Oak;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Mule;   Oak;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   David;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Mule;   Oak;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mule;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Absalom (1);   Chance;   Mule;   Oak;   Terebinth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asa;   Mule;  

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Non rectis ergo oculis Saul aspiciebat David a die illa, et deinceps.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Accidit autem, ut occurreret Absalom servis David sedens mulo; cumque ingressus fuisset mulus subter condensam quercum et magnam, adhaesit caput eius quercui, et mansit suspensus inter caelum et terram; mulus, cui insederat, pertransivit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his head: 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. 2 Samuel 18:14, 2 Samuel 14:26, 2 Samuel 17:23, Matthew 27:5

taken up: Deuteronomy 21:23, Deuteronomy 27:16, Deuteronomy 27:20, Job 18:8-10, Job 31:3, Psalms 63:9, Psalms 63:10, Proverbs 20:20, Proverbs 30:17, Jeremiah 48:44, Mark 7:10, Galatians 3:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:24 - found Leviticus 19:19 - thy cattle gender 2 Samuel 3:3 - Absalom 2 Samuel 13:29 - mule Psalms 55:15 - Let death Ezekiel 17:20 - I will spread John 12:32 - if

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Absalom met the servants of David,.... When his army was routed, he was in such a fright that he knew not which way to flee, and instead of flying from David's men, he fled in the way of them; but none of them attempted to slay him, nor even to stop him, but let him pass by them, knowing David's charge concerning him:

and Absalom rode upon a mule; as was common for great personages to do in those days, 2 Samuel 13:29;

and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and running full speed, Absalom could not guide him, nor stop, nor divert him from going under it:

and his head caught hold of the oak; either the hair of his head was twisted and entangled in the thick boughs of the oak; or rather his head was jammed into a forked branch of the oak:

and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; hung in the air between both, as unworthy to live in either:

and the mule that [was] under him went away; and left him hanging in the oak.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

would seem that the two things which his vain-glory boasted in, the royal mule, and the magnificent head of hair by which he was caught in the “oak” (rather, terebinth or turpentine tree), both contributed to his untimely death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 18:9. And his head caught hold of the oak — It has been supposed that Absalom was caught by the hair, but no such thing is intimated in the text. Probably his neck was caught in the fork of a strong bough, and he was nearly dead when Joab found him; for it is said, 2 Samuel 18:14, he was yet alive, an expression which intimates he was nearly dead.


 
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