18 Or Absalom s'était fait ériger, de son vivant, le monument qui est dans la vallée du roi; car il disait: Je n'ai point de fils pour conserver la mémoire de mon nom. Et il appela le monument de son nom, et jusqu'à ce jour on l'appelle, la place d'Absalom.
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During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.