Now Absalom, while he was yet alive, had taken and set up for himself the pillar near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king's valley; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: and he called the pillar, Absalom's Hand, until this day.

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed; thus says the Lord.

Write this man down as childless; for by no means shall his seed ever grow up to sit on the throne of David, [or be as] a prince yet in Judah.

And it happened after this that Absalom the son of David had a very beautiful sister, and her name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.