2 Samuel 18:9
“When Absalom was cruelly attacking his father David, the speed of his mule caused him to collide with a thick oak tree, and the branches wound round his neck so that he was suspended high in the air. This was a prefiguration of the Lord's betrayer. Just as Judas ended his life in the knot of a noose, so also David's p…”
Source: Septuagint
9And Absalom went to meet the servants of David: and Absalom was mounted on his mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head was entangled in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth; and the mule passed on from under him.
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7And the people of Israel fell down there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter in that day, even twenty thousand men.
8And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land: and the wood consumed more of the people than the sword consumed among the people in that day.
— 2 Samuel 18:9 —
10And a man saw it, and reported to Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
11And Joab said to the man who reported it to him, And, behold, thou didst see him: why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.