And Joab said, I will begin this; I will not thus remain with you. And Joab took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the heart of the oak.

And when he cut his hair, (and it was at the beginning of every year that he cut it, because it grew heavy upon him) even when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head, [and it weighed] two hundred shekels according to the royal shekel.

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his donkey, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

And throwing the silver [coins] in the sanctuary, he departed; and going away, he hanged himself.

his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall by all means bury it in that day; for everyone that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and you shall by no means defile the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.

His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

Alas! Destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity!

But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts of the earth.

They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for jackals.

The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyes shall see darkness.

The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare; for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"