¹⁸ When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar^(A) for himself in the King’s Valley,^(B) for he had said, “I have no son^(C) to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name. 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)