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2 Samuel 18:8-10
New English Translation
2 Samuel 18:8-10
New English Translation
8 The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.
9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his[a] mule, it[b] went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair,[c] while the mule he had been riding kept going.
10 When one[d] of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”
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- 2 Samuel 18:9 tn Heb “the.”
- 2 Samuel 18:9 tn Heb “the donkey.”
- 2 Samuel 18:9 tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”
- 2 Samuel 18:10 tc 4QSama lacks the word “one.”
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