2 Samuel 18:18

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

1 Samuel 15:12

The king's

Genesis 14:17

I have no son

He called

Absalom's place

Acts 1:18

Bible References

Reared up

And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

The king's

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 King's Valley.

I have no son

And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Thus says the LORD, Write this man down as childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his descendants shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

He called

And they said, Come, 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.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Absalom's place

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his insides gushed out.