18 Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared him up a pillar, which is in the (A)King’s dale: for he said, I have no [a]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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:18 It seemed that God had punished him in taking away his children, 2 Sam. 14:27.

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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