2 Samuel 18:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ Then Joab blew the trumpet. So the troops stopped chasing Absalom’s Israelites. ¹⁷ Then Joab’s men took Absalom’s body. They threw it into a large pit in the forest. Then they filled the pit with many stones. All the Israelites who followed Absalom ran away and went home.

¹⁸ When Absalom was alive, he had put up a pillar in the King’s Valley. It was a monument to himself. He said, “I have no son to keep my name alive.” So he named the pillar after himself. That pillar is called Absalom’s Monument even today.