2 When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by ^fRachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ^g‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now ^hyour father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself ^athe pillar that is in ^bthe King’s Valley, for he said, ^c“I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s monument¹ to this day.