. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . itewars were familiar with the interlacingthickets characteristic of the wild trans-Jordanic region. The troops of Absalomlost their way. Absalom, riding at fullspeed on his royal mule, suddenly met a de-tachment of Davids army, and, darting asidethrough the wood, was caught by the head—perhaps entangled by his long hair2—be-tween the thick boughs of an overhangingtree—The Great Terebinth—swept fromthe animal, and the
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . itewars were familiar with the interlacingthickets characteristic of the wild trans-Jordanic region. The troops of Absalomlost their way. Absalom, riding at fullspeed on his royal mule, suddenly met a de-tachment of Davids army, and, darting asidethrough the wood, was caught by the head—perhaps entangled by his long hair2—be-tween the thick boughs of an overhangingtree—The Great Terebinth—swept fromthe animal, and there remained of the ordinary soldiers ventured toattack the helpless prince. Joab alone tookupon himself the responsibility of breakingDavids orders. He and his ten attendantsformed a circle round the gigantic tree, in-closing its precious victim, and first by histhree pikes, then by their swords, accomplish-ed the bloody work. Hard by was a well-known ditch, or pit, of vast dimensions. Intothis the corpse was thrown, and covered bya huge mound of stones. Alike among Jews,Mohammedans, and Christians, the name ofAbsalom is forever covered with Absaloms Tomb. Mussulman legends represent hell as yawn-ing, at the moment of bis death, beneath thefeet of the unhappy prince; and the modernJews, as they pass the monument in the val- 1 See Siioni, Maohir, Baezillai.—a So says Jose-phus, Ant. vii., 10, 5 2. ABSOLUTE 11 ABSOLUTION ley of Kidron, to -which they have given hisname, have buried its sides deep in the stoneswhich they throw against it in monument, just outside the walls ofJerusalem, is reported by tradition to bethat erected by Absalom himself in memoryof the three sons whom he had lost j1 but theIonic pillars which surround its< base showthat it belongs to a much later period. Ab-salom left one daughter, named after his sis-ter, [2 Sam. ] Absolute stands opposed to relative, andmeans that the thing is consi
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