And David sent forth a third of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, I will also surely go forth with you myself.

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on 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 heavens and the earth. And the mule under him went away.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. And darkness was under His feet.

You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip.

And I have crushed them and wounded them so that they could not rise. Yea, they have fallen under my feet.

For You have girded me with strength to battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

It is God who avenges me and who brings down the peoples under me,