2 Samuel 18:6

So the people went out into the field against Israel ,.... Josephus F5 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 10.) sect. 2. calls it a great field, with a wood behind it:

and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim ; or near it F6 ביער "ad sylvam", Junius & Tremellius; "prope sylvam", Piscator. rather; not in a wood in the tribe of Ephraim, which lay on this side Jordan; whereas this battle was fought on the other side Jordan, in the land of Gilead, not far from Mahanaim, where was this wood; and which was so called, either from the slaughter of the Ephraimites here in the times of Jephthah, Judges 12:4 ; or from the Ephraimites feeding their cattle here and near it; for the Jews say F7 In Jarchi, Kimchi, & Abarbinel, in loc. , that Joshua gave them a grant to feed their cattle in any wood in any of the tribes of Israel; and lying near Jordan, they used to drive their cattle over to this place, from whence it had its name.