When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking,‘ Have you seen my son?’
They threw Absalom’s body into a deep pit in the forest and piled a great heap of stones over it. And all Israel fled to their homes.During his lifetime, Absalom had built a monument to himself in the King’s Valley, for he said,“ I have no son to carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and it is known as Absalom’s Monument to this day.
Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark the place where God had spoken to him. Then he poured wine over it as an offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive oil.