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2 Samuel 18:182Sam.18.18

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.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

De son vivant, Absalom s'était fait ériger un monument dans la vallée du roi; car il disait: Je n'ai point de fils par qui le souvenir de mon nom puisse être conservé. Et il donna son propre nom au monument, qu'on appelle encore aujourd'hui monument d'Absalom.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 104 (Migne)

    Joadae consiliarius, et Ochibi, et Ophilit, et filii David principes erant aulae regiae. XIX. (II Reg. 18. 18.) Quaeris quare de Absalon Scriptura dicat post mortem ejus, quod erexit sibi titulum dicens: non habeo filium: cum in hoc libro super scriptum habeatur, (14. 27.)…

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