5. And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
6. And the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
7. And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.
8. And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9. And Absalom found himself in the presence of David's servants. And Absalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of the great terebinth, and his head caught in the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
10. And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.