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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:18 Or Absalom's hand

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