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# the King's Valley
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This is the name of a place. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])
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# to carry along the memory of my name
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Absalom uses the phrase "my name" to refer to himself and his family line. Alternate translation: "to carry on my family name, by which people would remember me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# so it is called Absalom's Monument to this very day
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "so people called it Absalom's Monument from that day on" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# to this very day
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This refers to the present time when this book of the Bible was written.
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