16 Then Joab [a]blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great [b]pit in the wood, and laid a mighty great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

18 Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared him up a pillar, which is in the (A)King’s dale: for he said, I have no [c]son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:16 For he had pity of the people, which was seduced by Absalom’s flattery.
  2. 2 Samuel 18:17 Thus God turned his vain glory to shame.
  3. 2 Samuel 18:18 It seemed that God had punished him in taking away his children, 2 Sam. 14:27.

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