2 Samuel 18:16-18

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¹⁶ Then Joab blew the trumpet, so the troops ·stopped [returned from] chasing the Israelites. ¹⁷ Then Joab’s men took Absalom’s body and threw it into a ·large [deep] pit in the forest and ·filled the pit with [^Lpiled over him] many stones. All the Israelites ·ran away [fled] to their homes.

¹⁸ When Absalom was alive, he had ·set up a pillar for [built a monument to] himself in the King’s Valley. He said, “I have no son to keep my name alive.” So he named the ·pillar [monument] after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument even today.