2 Samuel 18:18

Easy To Read Version

While Absalom was alive he put up a pillar in King’s Valley. Absalom said, “I have no son to keep my name alive.” So he named the pillar after himself. That pillar is called “Absalom’s Monument” even today.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then the people said, “We should build a city for ourselves. And we should build a tower that will reach to the sky. We will be famous. {And this will keep us together.} We will not be scattered all over the earth.”

Genesis 11:9

That is the place where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So that place is called Babel. [68] So the Lord caused the people to spread out from that place to all the other places on earth.

Genesis 14:17

Then Abram went home after he defeated Kedorlaomer and the kings with Kedorlaomer. When he came home, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh. (This is now called King’s Valley.)

2 Samuel 14:27

Absalom had three sons and one daughter. This daughter’s name was Tamar. Tamar was a beautiful woman.

Psalm 109:13

Destroy my enemy completely.\par Let the next generation remove his name\par from everything.\par

Psalm 49:11

The grave will be their new home\par forever and ever.\par And how much land they owned\par won’t make any difference!\par

Isaiah 22:16

\{Ask that servant,\} ‘What are you doing here? Is any person from your family buried here? Why are you making a grave here?’”

Jeremiah 22:30

The Lord says,\par “Write this down about Jehoiachin:\par ‘He is a man that has no children anymore!\par Jehoiachin will not be successful\par in his lifetime.\par And none of his children\par will sit on the throne of David.\par None of his children\par will rule in Judah.’”\par

Numbers 32:42

Nobah defeated Kenath and the small towns near it. Then he called that place by his own name.

1 Samuel 15:12

Samuel got up early the next morning and went to meet Saul. But the people told Samuel, “Saul went to {the town in Judah named} Carmel. Saul went there to set up a stone monument to honor himself. Saul is traveling around to several places and will finally go down to Gilgal.”