2 Samuel 18:9

⁹ And it happened that Absalom met he servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and he earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.

Go after

To go after or to follow, as in Genesis 24:8, signifies to be separated from the natural and conjoined to the rational principle.