2 Samuel 18:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had reared up for himself a pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. He called the pillar after his own name, and to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the 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 Absalom’s monument, unto this day.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ When he was alive, Absalom had raised a large pillar for himself in the King’s Valley because he said, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself. It is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Now Absalom had raised up for himself, when he was still alive, a monument, which is in the Valley of the King. For he said, "I have no son, and so this shall be the memorial to my name." And he called the monument by his own name. And it is called the Hand of Absalom, even to this day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar, which is in the king's valley. For he said: I have no son; and this shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by is own name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.

2 Samuel 18:18 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 11:4

And they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky.  Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.’

Genesis 11:9

Therefore it is called Babylon,  ,, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

Genesis 14:17

After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King’s Valley  ).

2 Samuel 14:27

Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.

Isaiah 22:16

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?

Jeremiah 22:30

This is what the Lord says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not be successful in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, ‘Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built to be a royal residence by my vast power and for my majestic glory? ’

Numbers 32:42

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its surrounding villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

1 Samuel 15:12

Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but it was reported to Samuel, ‘Saul went to Carmel  where he set up a monument for himself. Then he turned around and went down to Gilgal.’