2 Samuel 18:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ Afterward, Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them. ¹⁷ They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him.^(A) And all Israel fled, each to his tent.^(B)

¹⁸ When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar^(C) for himself in the King’s Valley,^(D) for he had said, “I have no son^(E) to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.