2Sa 18:18 | HCSB | STEP | When he was alive , Absalom had set up a pillar for himself in the King’s Valley , for he had said , “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name .” So he gave the pillar his name . It is still called Absalom’s Monument today .

a Gn 28:18; Dt 16:22; 1Sa 15:12; 2Kg 18:4

2 Samuel 18:18

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