| Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...Absalom safe? And Cushi 99 answered, The enemies of my Lord be as that young riiah is. And the King was moved and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept, and said, O my Son Absalom, my Son, — my Son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, — O Absalom my... | |
| Henry Pickering - 1822 - 236 pages
...forcibly are we reminded, in reading it, of a similar instance of parental grief recorded in Holy Writ j " And the King was much moved, and went up to the chamber...over the gate, and wept : and. as he went, thus he said — O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom. Would to God I had died for thee, Absalom, my son,... | |
| 1822 - 666 pages
...hears of the untimely death of an ungrateful son, than is recorded of David liy the sacred writer : " And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber...over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son,... | |
| 1853 - 636 pages
...were eager to repeat the song, " Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." But " the King was much moved, and went up to the chamber...over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son,... | |
| Henry Pickering - 1822 - 150 pages
...forcibly are we reminded, in reading it, of a similar instance of parental grief recorded in Holy Writ; " And the King was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thui he said — O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom. Would to God I had died for thee, Absalom,... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 328 pages
...soldiers, were rending the air with shouts of victory — he, poor conqueror, went up, as it is written, to the chamber over the gate and wept : and as he went, thus he said; O, my son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! would to God 1 had died for thee ! O Absalom, my... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pages
...soldiers, were rending the air with shouts of victory — he, poor conqueror, went up, as it is written, to the chamber over the gate and wept: and as he went, thus he said; O, my son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom! would to God I had died for thee! O Absalom, my son,... | |
| William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824 - 392 pages
...soldiers, were rendmg the air with shouts of victory — he, poor conqueror, went up, as it is written, to the chamber over the gate, and wept ; and as he went, thus he said : " O my son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! would to God I had died for thee ! O Absalom,... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...over the gate, unto the wall." When the king received the distressing news of Absalom's death, " he was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept."6 To these may be added, the upper chamber, upon whose terrace Ahaz erected his idolatrous altars... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is. 33 ^f And the king was much moved, and went up" to the chamber...over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son,... | |
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