“In his own lifetime, Avshalom had taken and raised for himself the pillar which stands in the King’s Valley; because he said, ‘I don’t have a son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he named the pillar after himself, and it’s called Avshalom’s Monument to this day.”-2 Samuel 18:18 Verse 18 tells us […]

“Yo’av sounded the shofar, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, because Yo’av held back the troops.  They took Avshalom and threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled a big heap of stones over him. All Israel fled, each one to his tent.“-2 Samuel 18:16-17 Yo’av was a smart general. As […]

“Someone saw it and told Yo’av, ‘I saw Avshalom hanging in a terebinth.’ Yo’av asked the man who told him, ‘Here now, you saw it; so why didn’t you strike him to the ground then and there? I would have had to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt besides.’”-2 Samuel 18:10-11 A […]

“Avshalom happened to meet some of David’s servants. Avshalom was riding his mule, and as the mule walked under the thick branches of a big terebinth tree, his head got caught in the terebinth, so that he was left hanging between earth and sky, as the mule went on from under him.”-2 Samuel 18:9 So […]

“The people of Israel were defeated there by David’s servants; there was a terrible slaughter that day of 20,000 men.  For the battle there was spread all over the countryside; the forest devoured more people that day than did the sword.“-2 Samuel 18:7-8 The battle for the throne of Israel took place in an area […]