2 Samuel 18:10

18:10 When one ¹  of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.

2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his ²  mule, it ³  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, ⁴  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

[18:10]  ¹ tc 4QSam^a lacks the word “one.”

[18:9]  ² tn Heb “the.”

[18:9]  ³ tn Heb “the donkey.”

[18:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”