2 Samuel 18:17-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁷ They took Absalom and cast him into ^[a]a deep pit in the forest and ^(A)erected over him a very great heap of stones. And ^(B)all Israel fled, each to his tent. ¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and ^(C)set up for himself a pillar which is in ^(D)the King’s Valley, for he said, “^(E)I have no son ^[b]to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

David Is Grief-stricken

¹⁹ Then ^(F)Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and bring the king news ^(G)that the Lord has ^[c]freed him from the hand of his enemies.”