2 Samuel 18:17-19

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁷ They took Absalom's dead body and they threw it into a deep hole in the forest. They made a big heap of stones over the body.

All the Israelite soldiers ran back to their homes.

¹⁸ While Absalom was alive, he had built a tall pillar in the King's Valley. He built it so that people would remember him. He thought, ‘I have no son, so my family's name will not continue.’ He put his own name on the pillar, so people still call it Absalom's Pillar.

David hears about Absalom's death

¹⁹ Zadok's son Ahimaaz said to Joab, ‘Let me run to give the king the good news. I will tell him that the Lord has saved him from the power of his enemies.’