Today when you leave me, you’ll find two men at Rachel’s Grave at Zelzah in the territory of Benjamin. They will say to you,‘ The donkeys you went looking for have been found, and now your father has stopped being concerned about the donkeys and is worried about you, asking: What should I do about my son?’
They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and raised up a huge mound of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.When he was alive, Absalom had taken a pillar and raised it up for himself in the King’s Valley, since he thought,“ I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he named the pillar after himself. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.