Ephraim, Wood of

a forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was killed there (2 Sam. 18:6, 8). It lay on the east of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim, and was some part of the great forest of Gilead.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (M.G. Easton, 1897, public domain).