Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.”
He called the pillar after his own name.
It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”
Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day.
But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”