When you have departed from me today, you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you,‘ The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. And now your father has ceased caring about the donkeys and is worrying about you, saying,“ What shall I do about my son?”’
And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and laid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel fled, everyone to his tent.Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a pillar for himself, which is in the King’s Valley. For he said,“ 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.