"Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, 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, Absaloms place" (2 Samuel 18:18).

Dr. Pierotti, a French scientist, architect and engineer, when an infidel, journeyed through Palestine with the avowed intention of disproving the truth of the Bible. Visiting the heaps of stone over Absalom's grave, he saw an Arab woman come by with her little child held by the hand. In passing, she threw a stone upon the heap marking the tomb of Absalom, and bade the child do the same. "What do you do that for?" asked Dr. Pierotti. "Because it is the grave of a wicked son who disobeyed his father." "And who was he?" "The son of David," she replied. The professor started as though a blow had struck him. Bible in hand, he turned to the story of Absalom, and as he read it a new light shone on him. This was the first of many convictions which so wrought upon him that at length he embraced the faith he once attempted to destroy, and devoted his life to the proof and illustration of the Holy Scriptures.

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"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16).