¹⁶ Then Joab made a sound with his trumpet to stop the battle. So his soldiers stopped chasing after Israel's soldiers. 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.