taken up. The tradition about his "hair" comes from Josephus 2 Samuel 10:2).
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2 Samuel 18:9
9 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.