Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Bible References
His head
2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, “I will not waste time here with you.” So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
2 Samuel 14:26
When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king’s weight.
2 Samuel 17:23
Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.
Matthew 27:5
And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
Taken up
Deuteronomy 21:23 his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Job 18:8 “For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
And he steps on the webbing.
Job 31:3 “Is it not calamity to the unjust
And disaster tothose who work iniquity?
And disaster to
Psalm 63:9 But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into thedepths of the earth.
Will go into the
Proverbs 20:20 He who curses his father or his mother,
Hislamp will go out in time of darkness.
His
Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks a father
Andscorns a mother,
Theravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the youngeagles will eat it.
And
The
And the young
Jeremiah 48:44 “The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of theirpunishment,” declares the Lord.
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their
Mark 7:10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’;
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—