10:017:026 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

10:017:027 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that
           Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
           and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the
           Gileadite of Rogelim,

10:017:028 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
           barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles,
           and parched pulse,

10:017:029 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for
           David, and for the people that were with him, to eat:  for they
           said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the
           wilderness.

10:018:001 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set
           captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.

10:018:002 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand
           of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of
           Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of
           Ittai the Gittite.  And the king said unto the people, I will
           surely go forth with you myself also.

10:018:003 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth:  for if we
           flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us
           die, will they care for us:  but now thou art worth ten
           thousand of us:  therefore now it is better that thou succour
           us out of the city.

10:018:004 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. 
           And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came
           out by hundreds and by thousands.

10:018:005 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
           Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. 
           And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains
           charge concerning Absalom.

10:018:006 So the people went out into the field against Israel:  and the
           battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

10:018:007 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of
           David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of
           twenty thousand men.

10:018:008 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the
           country:  and the wood devoured more people that day than the
           sword devoured.

10:018:009 And Absalom met the servants of David.  And Absalom rode upon a
           mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak,
           and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up
           between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under
           him went away.