¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself ^(A)the pillar that is in ^(B)the King's Valley, for he said, ^(C)“I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument^[a] to this day.

¹² But to all who did receive him, ^(A)who believed in his name, ^(B)he gave the right ^(C)to become ^(D)children of God,