9 And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak,¹ and his ^ahead caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

33 And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own ^pmule, and bring him down to Gihon.