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.

His head

Bible References

His head

Matthew 27:5
Judas flung down the pieces of silver in the Temple, and left; and went away and hanged himself.

Taken up

Mark 7:10
For while Moses said 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' and 'Let him who reviles his father or mother suffer death,'
Galatians 3:13
Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for Scripture says--'Cursed is any one who is hanged on a tree.'