¹⁸ When he was alive, Absalom had taken a pillar and raised it up^(A) for himself in the King’s Valley,^(B) since he thought, ‘I have no son^(C) to preserve the memory of my name.’ So he named the pillar after himself. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.

⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.^(A)