| II Samuel 18:18
| Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his life-time, a pillar, which is in the king's valley: for he said: I have no son, and this shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by is own name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.
| No son. The sons mentioned above, 2 Kings 14:27, were dead when this pillar was erected; unless we suppose he raised this pillar before they were born: (Challoner) or meant this pillar to perpetuate his memory, when they should be no more. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] 7:9.) --- This author says that it was a pillar of marble; so that it is different from that which Doubdan (15) mentions, observing , that all who pass throw a stone at it. Thus was his vanity chastised! --- Hand, work. So Martial (VIII. 51.) says of a vial! Mentoris haec manus est an, Polyclete, tua? (Menochius) --- The same word is translated, triumphal arch, 1 Kings 15:12. (G.[Calmet?])
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