Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

Prior to this Absalom had set up a monument and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning “I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.