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Absalom
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The third son of David and the half-brother of Solomon. Sent his servants after his other half-brother Amnon for rapeing his sister Tamar at a feast in which he invited every one of the kings' sons and perished at the Battle of Ephraim Wood when his head was caught on a branch of an oak tree as his horse was riding under it.