And during his lifetime Absalom had taken and set up for himself a standingpillar, which is in the King’s Valley. For he said, I have no son to cause my name to be remembered. And he called the standing pillar by his name and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.
So says Jehovah, Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days, for not one from his seed will prosper, a man sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.
For I will rise against them, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts, and I will cut off the name and remnant, the son and posterity, from Babylon, a statement of Jehovah.
And it happened at evening time, David rose up from his bed and walked up and down on the roof of the king’s house. And he saw from the roof a woman bathing. And the woman was very good of form.