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

David Weeps Over Absalom

¹⁹ Then ^(D)Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and proclaim the good news to the king ^(E)that Yahweh has judged to save him from the hand of his enemies.” ²⁰ But Joab said to him, “You are not the man for the good news this day, but you shall proclaim the good news another day; however, you shall not proclaim the good news today because the king’s son has died.”