2 Samuel 18:16-18

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁶ Joab blew the trumpet and called the people to stop chasing Israelites. ¹⁷ Then Joab’s men took Absalom’s body and threw it into a large hole in the forest and covered it with stones.

All the Israelites ran away and went home.

¹⁸ While Absalom was alive he put up a memorial stone in King’s Valley. He said, “I have no son to keep my name alive.” So he named that monument after himself. It is called “Absalom’s Monument” even today.