Battle of the Wood of Ephraim Absalom." The two armies met in a forest of Ephraim. It was a great and terrible battle. The rebel forces were unable to maneuver because the thickness of trees, and their numbers were reduced by the underbrush of the forest. The forces of Absalom were thus routed by the royal forces of David. Absalom himself fled. As he was riding through the woods on his mule, he was caught by the long locks of his hair under the spreading branches of a large tree. Unable to free himself, he remained suspended, his mule had escaped. One of David's servants brought
David Tree David Tree David Tree (15 July 1915 in London – 4 November 2009), born Ian David Parsons, was an English stage and screen actor from a distinguished theatrical family whose career in the 1930s included roles in numerous stage presentations as well as in thirteen films produced between 1937 and 1941, among which were 1939's "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and two of producer Gabriel Pascal's adaptations of Shaw classics, 1938's "Pygmalion", in which he portrayed Freddy Eynsford-Hill, and 1941's "Major Barbara", in which he was Charles Lomax. Tree was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, the son of theatre critic Alan