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2Sa 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.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

reared up	1Sa 15:12
the king's	Gen 14:17
I have no son	2Sa 14:27; Job 18:16,17; Psa 109:13; Jer 22:30
he called	Gen 11:4; 1Sa 15:12; Psa 49:11; Dan 4:30
Absalom's place	Josephus says there was in his time, about two furlongs from Jerusalem, a marble pillar called Absalom's hand, as it is in the Hebrew, (See note on 1Sa 15:12;) and there is one shown to the present day, in the valley of Jehoshaphat, which, though comparatively a modern structure, probably occupies the site of the original one set up by Absalom. Gen 11:9; Act 1:18,19