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

¹⁴ They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled ^(A)with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and ^(B)they made a very great fire for him.

⁶⁰ and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock; and he rolled ^(A)a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.