2 Samuel 18:9

18:9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his 1  mule, it 2  went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, 3  while the mule he had been riding kept going.

2 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa 4  stopped, the man 5  pulled him 6  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

1 tn Heb “the.”

2 tn Heb “the donkey.”

3 tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”

4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Amasa) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who spoke up in v. 11) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn Heb “Amasa.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.