Samuel 28:18 reads, in most Bibles, something along the lines of,
Now Absalom in his life had taken and erected himself the pillar which is in the King’s Valley. For he said, I have no son for my name to be remembered by. And he named the pillar after himself. And it is called Absalom’s Place to this day.
Really, a pillar called “Place”? Other translations say “Absalom’s Hand,” which also doesn’t look like a pillar. Perhaps the translations are obscuring the fact that the word translated hand or pillar, the Hebrew yad, is being used here in a very crude and insulting reference to Absalom. Check out this post.
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Samuel 28:18 reads, in most Bibles, something along the lines of,
Really, a pillar called “Place”? Other translations say “Absalom’s Hand,” which also doesn’t look like a pillar. Perhaps the translations are obscuring the fact that the word translated hand or pillar, the Hebrew yad, is being used here in a very crude and insulting reference to Absalom. Check out this post.
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