2 Samuel 18:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ At this, Joab sounded his battle trumpet and his troops stopped pursuing the other^[a] Israelis. ¹⁷ Meanwhile, Joab’s army grabbed Absalom’s body, tossed it into a large pit in the forest, and filled it up with a huge pile of rocks. Then the Israelis ran away back to their homes.

¹⁸ While Absalom had been living, he had erected a pillar as a monument^[b] to himself in King’s Valley because he had been telling himself, “I don’t have a son to carry on my family name.”^[c] So he named the pillar after himself—it’s called Absalom’s Monument even today.