OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 18:9

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Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

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Verse 9. Oak, between the branches, which hindered him from escaping. Calmet.—His beautiful curls got also entangled. Menochius.

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