A pillar — To preserve his name; whereas it had been more for his honour if his name had been buried in perpetual oblivion.
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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.