He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

The Lord thundered from the sky; the sovereign One shouted loudly.

The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, she did not allow the birds of the air to feed on them by day, nor the wild animals by night.

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