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 A. King (historian) unique testimonial to an intercultural encounter”, "Suhayl" 3 (2002/03): 9-156 “The cult of St. Wilgefortis in Flanders, Holland, England and France”, in "Am Kreuz – Eine Frau", in "Ästhetik – Theologie – Liturgik" (Münster), 26 (2003): 55-97 David A. King (historian) David A. King (born 1941) is a British-born orientalist and historian of astronomy. At an early age he decided not to follow in the footsteps of his father, Henry C. King (1915 - 2005), author of "The History of the Telescope" (1956) and the first director of the London Planetarium and later of the McClaughlin Planetarium in Toronto. Instead