When he was alive, Absalom had taken a pillar and raised it up for himself in the King’s Valley, since he thought, ‘I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.’ So he named the pillar after himself. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.
This is what the Lord says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not be successful in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.
‘I will rise up against them’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.