18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and (A)set up for himself a pillar which is in (B)the King’s Valley, for he said, “(C)I have no son [a]to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:18 Lit for the sake of remembering

18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley(A) as a monument(B) to himself, for he thought, “I have no son(C) to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

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