Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.

Reared up

The king's

Absalom's place

Bible References

Reared up

1 Samuel 15:12
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set himself up a monument and is gone about and passed on and gone down to Gilgal.

The king's

Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the valley of the king.

I have no son

2 Samuel 14:27
And unto Absalom there were born three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar, who was a beautiful woman to behold.
Job 18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Jeremiah 22:30
Thus hath the LORD said, Write what shall be of this man deprived of a generation, a man unto whom nothing shall prosper in all the days of his life, for no man of his seed who sits upon the throne of David and rules over Judah shall prosper.

He called

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
1 Samuel 15:12
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set himself up a monument and is gone about and passed on and gone down to Gilgal.
Psalm 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses are eternal and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Daniel 4:30
the king spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?

Absalom's place

Acts 1:18
He, therefore, purchased a field with the reward of his iniquity; and hanging himself, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.