Who was Absalom?

Father of peace; i. e., “peaceful” David’s son by Maacah (2 Sam. 3:3; comp. 1 Kings 1:6). He was noted for his personal beauty and for the extra-ordinary profusion of the hair of his head (2 Sam. 14:25,26).

Absalom first appears in 2 Samuel 3:3. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 86 verse mentions across 4 books, most notably 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, 1 Chronicles.