18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King's Valley , for he said , " I have no son to preserve my name ." So he named the pillar after his own name , and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 18:18
Commentary on 2 Samuel 18:9-18
(Read 2 Samuel 18:9-18)
Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men from misery and contempt, but heavenly wisdom and the grace of God.