What are you doing here? Who authorised you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a resting place for yourself out of rock?
He was buried in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David. They laid him out in a coffin that was full of spices and various mixtures of prepared ointments; then they made a great fire in his honour.
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.
So now what have I here’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.
my father made me take an oath, saying, “I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.’
But you are thrown out without a grave, like a worthless branch, covered by those slain with the sword and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.