2 Samuel 18:18
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| Overview - 2 Samuel 18 | |
| 1 | David viewing the armies in their march gives them charge of Absalom. |
| 6 | The Israelites are sorely smitten in the wood of Ephraim. |
| 9 | Absalom, hanging in an oak is slain by Joab, and cast into a pit. |
| 18 | Absalom's place. |
| 19 | Ahimaaz and Cushi bring tidings to David. |
| 33 | David mourns for Absalom. |
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2 Samuel 18:18 (King James Version)
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.
- reared up
- 1 Samuel 15:12
- the king's
- Genesis 14:17
- I have no son
- 14:27 Job 18:16 Job 18:17 ; Psalms 109:13 ; Jeremiah 22:30
- he called
- Genesis 11:4 ; 1 Samuel 15:12 ; Psalms 49:11 ; Daniel 4:30
- Absalom's place
- Josephus says there was in his time, about two furlongs from Jerusalem, a marble pillar called Absalom's hand, as it is in the Hebrew, (See note on 1 ; Sa 15:12 and there is one shown to the present day, in the valley of Jehoshaphat, which, though comparatively a modern structure, probably occupies the site of the original one set up by Absalom.
- Genesis 11:9 ; Acts 1:18 Acts 1:19