2 Samuel 18:16-18

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁶ Then Joab blew the trumpet. And the people returned from pursuing after Israel. For Joab held back the people.

¹⁷ And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest and laid a mighty great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled, each one to his tent.

¹⁸ Now Absalom, in his lifetime, had taken and raised up a pillar for himself (which is in the king’s dale). For he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” And he named the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called “Absalom’s Place”.