Their inward thought is that their houses shall last forever, their dwellingplaces to generation and generation; they call their lands after their own names.
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and he called the name of the city according to the name of his son, Enoch.
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.
When there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with success, yet he shall give it to a man who has not labored with it, for his share; this also is vanity and a great evil.
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Towns of Jair, until today.
And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told to Samuel, saying, Saul has come to Carmel. And behold, he has set up a hand to himself, and has gone around, and has passed over and gone down to Gilgal.