 | 1842 - 380 pages
...children, or else after they had all died,) to keep up my name in remembrance.' Arid he called Ihe pillar after his own name; and it is called unto this day 'Absalom's Place.'" (2 Sam. xviii. 18.) It is mentioned by Josephus as a marble column; but our engraving represents the... | |
 | Manasseh ben Israel, Elias Hiam Lindo - 1842 - 354 pages
...Absalom had sons, but none of them fit for, or deserving the kingdom : and this is what the text says, " for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance," meaning, such a son as would make his name memorable : this solution is adopted by Rashi. R. Hasdai,... | |
 | 1843 - 1108 pages
...stones upon him : and all Israel fled every one to his tent. 18 1 Now Absalom in his life time h:fd ut themselves are gone into captivity. 3 IT Hearken unto me, O house of Jac lie said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name,... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...heap of stones upon him : and all Israel fled every one to his tent IS Tf Now Absalom in his lifetime and caught three hundred foxes, and took d firebrands, and turned t ' dalt : for he said, I have no son ' to keep my name in remembrance : and he called • the pillar... | |
 | Stephen Olin - 1843 - 526 pages
...Absalom, we know, " reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the King's Dale ; and he called it after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom's Place."}: We learn from Josephus that this monument was of marble, a name which he often gives to the limestone... | |
 | William Robert Wilde - 1844 - 674 pages
...which we have an account in the Book of Samuel, was erected by Absalom. " Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which...; and it is called unto this day Absalom's Place." (2 Sam. xviii. 18.) Josephus also informs us, that " Absalom had erected for himself a stone marble... | |
 | Alfred John Dunkin - 1844 - 148 pages
...attached to the spot. '; Josh, iv, 20. Gen. xxxv, 20. j '2 Sam. xviii, l8. "Now Absalom in his life time reared up' for himself a pillar, which is in the King's...And it is called unto this day ' Absalom's Place." " l)r. Clarke says, the Greeks, as a mark of memorial raised mounds like barrows upon every spot signalized... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 702 pages
...which we have an account in the book of Samuel, was erected by Absalom. * Now Absalom in his iiiotime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which...is in the king's dale ; for he said, I have no son t--' keep my name in remembrance ; and he called the pillar after his own name ; and it is called unto... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...upon him: and all Israel lied every one to his tent. 18 IT Kow Absalom in his lifetime had taken nnd lie said, I have no son to keep n in remembrance: and pillar after bis own called unto this 10 If Then... | |
 | 1855 - 1080 pages
...in the valley of Jehoshaphat, and it is thus mentioned in the Bible. " No» Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which...and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." (2 Sam. xviii. 18.) Absalom therefore set up this pillar to keep his name in remembrance, because he... | |
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Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name : and it is called unto this day, Absalom's... 
