Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():

" Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's monument.

* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.

* Absalom is the name of a character in Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece during the Thriller Bark arc.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.

* Absalom is the name of a character in Michael Crummey's Newfoundland-set Galore.

* Absalom is the name given to the caterpillar by screenwriter Linda Woolverton in Disney's " Alice in Wonderland ," directed by Tim Burton.

* Absalom Greer, is the name of a character in Jan Karon ’ s Mitford series.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.

* In " Every Kind Word " by Lackthereof, Danny Seim's project parallel to Menomena, Seim sings "... and your hair is long like Absalom.

* " Absalom " is a song on Brand New Shadows's debut album, White flags.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

Absalom kills and murders a man, and also meets an untimely death.

While being fiercely loyal to David, Joab was also suspicious of any potential rivals for Joab's power or threats to David's kingdom, and had no qualms about taking the lives of any who might stand in his way ( E. G., Abner:, and Absalom: ).

Her brother, Ebenezer Zane, who cut Zane's Trace from Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky, opening the west for settlement, is also buried in Walnut Grove Pioneer Cemetery, along with Absalom and Ebenezer Martin and other important early settlers.

He also narrates several chapters of Absalom, Absalom !.

He is also a character in Absalom, Absalom !.

Allen and Absalom Jones, also a Methodist preacher, resented the white congregants ' segregating the blacks for worship and prayer.

Principally depicted in The Sound and the Fury and in its appendix, they also make appearances in Absalom, Absalom!

Stephen decides to travel to Johannesburg to help his sister and also seek his son, Absalom, who works in the mines (" Thousands of Miles ").

Dryden's poem tells the story of the first foment by making Monmouth into Absalom, the beloved boy, Charles into David ( who also had some philandering ), and Shaftesbury into Achitophel.

It is also mentioned during David's flight from Absalom:

Mahanaim is also the location to which David is described as fleeing, when his son Absalom rebelled ; having arrived at Mahanaim, David is described as having been entertained by a man named Barzillai, and having mustered forces there to combat Absalom's army.

It is also the location that the Bible states was the place where David was informed about his victory over Absalom, and the death of his son.

Another biblical allusion is seen when Absalom requests that his son's name be Peter — the name of one of Jesus's disciples ; among Peter's better-known traits is a certain impulsiveness ; also, after Christ's arrest, he denied knowing Jesus three times, and later wept in grief over this.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Absalom, one of David's sons, rallied much of Israel in rebellion against David, who was forced to flee with only his most trusted men.

According to the National Park Service, the caves were, most likely, discovered by Absalom Lehman in 1885.

The oceanic city of Venice had been used as a stand-in for London before, but the subtext most noticeable to contemporaries was the parallel with the Exclusion Crisis ( see, for example, Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ).

He was swift of foot, and was the first to carry to David tidings of the defeat of Absalom, although he refrained, from delicacy of feeling, from telling him of his death ( 2 Sam.

The Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with David's flight from Absalom

Other members of the group included: John Brotherton ( preacher ); Archibald Prentice ( later editor of the Manchester Times ); John Shuttleworth ( industrialist and municipal reformer ); Absalom Watkin ( parliamentary reformer and anti corn law campaigner ); William Cowdray Jnr ( editor of the Manchester Gazette ); Thomas Potter ( later first mayor of Manchester ) and Richard Potter ( later MP for Wigan ).

In 1795, Absalom Jones was ordained as a deacon, and in 1804 as a priest, becoming the first black ordained in the United States as an Episcopal priest.

* Text, with notes, of the first part of Absalom and Achitophel

Their first child was daughter Catherine ( born June 27, 1769 ), who Married Absalom Martin, a government surveyor of the Seven Ranges who founded Martins Ferry, Ohio.

Some of the first artists to sign included Ian Matthews, Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart, Mike Absalom, Dr. Z, Catapilla, Cressida, Colosseum, Gentle Giant, Jade Warrior, Metallica, Nirvana ( UK band ), Kraftwerk, Ben, Keith Tippett Group, Tudor Lodge, Streetwalkers, Lucifer's Friend and Magna Carta.

While the first four acts of Absalom looked at parallels in what had happened so far, the fifth looked to parallels in the future.

* July – Two independent black churches open in Philadelphia: the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, with Absalom Jones, and the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, with Richard Allen, the first church of what would become a new black denomination in 1816.