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
Joab said, "No longer will I wait in your presence." Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he [was] still alive in the oak tree.
2 Samuel 14:26
When he shaved his head, it would happen {every year}, which he did because [it was] heavy on him, he would shave it off and weigh the hair of his head: two hundred shekels {by the king's weight}.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.
Matthew 27:5
And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away [and] hanged himself.
Taken up
Deuteronomy 21:23
his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God [is] one that is [being] hung; so you shall not defile your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance."
Deuteronomy 27:16
'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Job 18:8
for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.
Job 31:3
Is not disaster for [the] evil one and ruin for [the] workers of mischief?
Psalm 63:9
But as for them [who] seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.
Proverbs 20:20
He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.
Jeremiah 48:44
"He [who] flees {before} the dread will fall into the pit, and the [one who] climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"