When you leave me today, then you will find two men close to Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you,‘ The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. Now behold, your father has stopped talking about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying,“ What am I to do about my son?” ’
And they took Absalom and threw him into a deep pit in the forest, and erected over him a very large pile of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his own tent.Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a memorial stone, which is in the King’s Valley, for he said,“ I have no son to continue my name.” So he named the memorial stone after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.
So Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a memorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.