16 Then (A)Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the people. 17 They took Absalom and cast him into [a]a deep pit in the forest and (B)erected over him a very great heap of stones. And (C)all Israel fled, each to his tent. 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and (D)set up for himself a pillar which is in (E)the King’s Valley, for he said, “(F)I have no son [b]to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:17 Lit the great
  2. 2 Samuel 18:18 Lit for the sake of remembering