Where Absalom kept his flocks, 2 Samuel 13:23, was near Ephraim, a city of Judah, some eight miles east of Jerusalem.

Having a courtyard, or Baal's village, the place on the borders of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated (2 Samuel 13:23). Probably it is the same with Hazor (Nehemiah 11:33), now Tell' Asur, 5 miles north-east of Bethel.