18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley(A) as a monument(B) to himself, for he thought, “I have no son(C) to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

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18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.

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18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a [a]pillar for himself, which is in (A)the King’s Valley. For he said, (B)“I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:18 monument

14 They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself(A) in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes,(B) and they made a huge fire(C) in his honor.

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14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

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14 They buried him in his own tomb, which he had [a]made for himself in the City of David; and they laid him in the bed which was filled (A)with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments. They made (B)a very great burning for him.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 16:14 Lit. dug

16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave(A) for yourself(B) here,
hewing your grave on the height
    and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

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16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

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16 ‘What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he (A)who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?

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60 and placed it in his own new tomb(A) that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

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60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

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60 and (A)laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.

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