2 Samuel 18:17-19

English Standard Version

¹⁷ And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him ^(A)a very great heap of stones. And all Israel ^(B)fled every one to his own home. ¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself ^(C)the pillar that is in ^(D)the King's Valley, for he said, ^(E)“I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument^[a] to this day.

David Hears of Absalom's Death

¹⁹ Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, ^(F)“Let me run and carry news to the king that ^(G)the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.”