Abishai and Itai, for My Sake, Protect the Young Man

The king ordered joab and abishi and itai, deal gently with the young man absalom. So the army went out into the field against israel. The battle spread over the face of all the country. And the forest devoured more people that day than the sword. Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak. He was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.