Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.