Verse 18
18. A pillar A monumental column inscribed with his own name.
King’s dale Supposed by some to be the lower part of the Kidron valley, near the pool of Siloam. See at Genesis 14:17.
No son The three sons mentioned (2 Samuel 14:27) seem to have died in childhood, and their names were never registered.
Called unto this day, Absalom’s place That is, at the time of the writer the pillar was yet standing and its history known. There still stands in the Kidron valley a monument bearing this name. It is an isolated block hewn out of the rocky ledge, twenty-four feet square and forty in height. Most travellers have decided, with Robinson, that its style of architecture shows the work of a later age than that of Absalom; but some are inclined to identify it with the ancient pillar.
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