2 Samuel 18:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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pillar. Marks ambition's aim, while the heap of stones (2 Samuel 18:17) marks ambition's end.

no son. Compare 2 Samuel 14:27. Therefore built, before the first-born; or after his sons (2 Samuel 14:27) were dead. place-monument. About. quarter of. mile east of Jerusalem, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

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2 Samuel 18:18

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.