The death of Absalom during the Battle of Ephraim’s Wood. Absalom’s hair was caught in a tree branch, he was thrown from his horse and subsequently killed by Joab. Learning of his death, his father, David, King of Israel, made his famous lament, O Absalom, my son, my son! After an engraving by German engraver Moritz Ferdinand Geringswald from a painting by German artist Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld

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