2 Samuel 18:9-18
9Then Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Now Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. And ahis head caught fast in the oak, so he was 1left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him passed onward. 10Then a certain man saw it, he told Joab and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.” 11Then Joab said to the man who had told him, “Now behold, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.” 12So the man said to Joab, “Even if I should receive one thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not send forth my hand against the king’s son; for ain our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘1Keep for me the young man Absalom!’ 13“Otherwise, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and athere is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.” 14Then Joab said, “I will not wait around here before you.” aSo he took three 1spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the 2midst of the oak. 15And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor gathered around and struck Absalom and put him to death.
16Then aJoab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the people. 17And they took Absalom and cast him into 1a deep pit in the forest and aset over him a very great heap of stones. And ball Israel fled, each to his tent. 18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and aset up for himself a pillar which is in bthe King’s Valley, for he had said, “cI have no son 1to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.