Forest of Ephraim
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Named at 2 Samuel 18:6: “So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.” At 18:7–8 the people of Israel are struck there before David’s servants, there is a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men, and the forest devours more people that day than the sword devours. At 18:17 they take Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raise over him a very great heap of stones.
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- 2SA 18:6–8, engwebp
6So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
7The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
8For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- 2SA 18:9–15, engwebp
9Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
10A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
11Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a sash.”
12The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
13Otherwise, if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
14Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.
15Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
- 2SA 18:16–18, engwebp
16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
17They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Ephraim 3” by name and 1 shared verse. The leading identification is Ephraim 3 (confidence 1000 of 1000). The dataset gives no point for it, only the region, river or route it lies in or along, so no point is drawn for it.
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- Ephraim 3
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.38111, 35.76472
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ephraim 3” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (3) — The people of Israel are struck before David’s servants in the forest of Ephraim, Absalom hangs in an oak, and Joab thrusts darts through Absalom’s heart, Joab blows the trumpet, and they cast Absalom into a great pit in the forest
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Forest of Ephraim (place-forest-of-ephraim) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/forest-of-ephraim Current wording: Named at 2 Samuel 18:6: “So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.” At 18:7–8 the people of Israel are struck there before David’s servants, there is a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men, and the forest devours more people that day than the sword devours. At 18:17 they take Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raise over him a very great heap of stones. Cited evidence: 2SA 18:6–8, engwebp / 2SA 18:9–15, engwebp / 2SA 18:16–18, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.