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Ephraim, Wood of
A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was killed there (2 Sam 18:6, 2 Sam 18:8). It lay on the east of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim, and was some part of the great forest of Gilead.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.