2 Samuel 18:17-19

Expanded Bible

¹⁷ Then Joab’s men took Absalom’s body and threw it into a ·large [deep] pit in the forest and ·filled the pit with [^Lpiled over him] many stones. All the Israelites ·ran away [fled] to their homes.

¹⁸ When Absalom was alive, he had ·set up a pillar for [built a monument to] himself in the King’s Valley. He said, “I have no son to keep my name alive.” So he named the ·pillar [monument] after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument even today.

¹⁹ Ahimaaz son of Zadok said to Joab, “Let me run and take the news to King David. I’ll tell him the Lord has ·saved [rescued; ^Tdelivered] him from his enemies.”