⁴ And Absalom would add, “If only I were appointed judge in the land!^(A) Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they receive justice.”

¹⁸ During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley^(A) as a monument^(B) to himself, for he thought, “I have no son^(C) to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.