16 So Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel. For Joab held back the people.
17 And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and alaid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel bfled, everyone to his tent.
18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a1 pillar for himself, which is in athe King’s Valley. For he said, b“I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
David Hears of Absalom’s Death
19 Then aAhimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me run now and take the news to the king, how the Lord has1 avenged him of his enemies.”
20 And Joab said to him, “You shall not take the news this day, for you shall take the news another day. But today you shall take no news, because the king’s son is dead.”
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Cross-references and similar verses for 2 Samuel 18:18:
reared up.
1 Samuel 15:12
the king's.
Genesis 14:17
I have no son.
2 Samuel 14:27
Job 18:16
Job 18:17
Psalms 109:13
Jeremiah 22:30
he called.
Genesis 11:4
1 Samuel 15:12
Psalms 49:11
Daniel 4:30
Absalom's place.
Genesis 11:9
Acts 1:18
Acts 1:19
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