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2 Samuel 18:18

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