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2 Samuel 18:17

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

And laid a very great heap of stones - This was the method of burying heroes, and even traitors, the heap of stones being designed to perpetuate the memory of the event, whether good or bad. The ancient cairns or heaps of stones, in different parts of the world, are of this kind. The various tumuli or barrows in England are the same as the cairns in different parts of Ireland and Scotland. In the former, stones were not plenty; hence they heaped up great mounds of earth.

Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

A great heap of stones - See the marginal reference. This kind of monument is common to almost all early nations.

Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men from misery and contempt, but heavenly wisdom and the grace of God.
Ellen G. White
Conflict and Courage, 184.1

And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him. 2 Samuel 18:17. CC 184.1

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