David in Exile

And among them the house of David came to an end, and so it was. The wife of Rav Huna the Exilarch was the daughter of Mar Rav Chanina, the head of the academy. And Rav Chanina was a great man. The judge of the Exilarch set out and went to the town of Rav Chanina, the head of the academy, and wished to hold a public lecture, but Rav Chanina, the head of the academy, would not permit him. And that night Mar Rav Chanina, the head of the academy, saw in a dream that he entered a garden of cedars and took an axe and cut down all the cedars that were in it. One small cedar remained beneath the ground. He raised the axe to cut it down, and there came an old man, ruddy of complexion. He said to him: "I am David, king of Israel, and this garden is mine. What did you have against them, that you cut them down?"