 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...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 God I had died for thee! 0 Absalom, my son, my son!'"—Sermon xi. p. 335. * Is not... | |
 | rev William Ellis - 298 pages
...reveals all. The immoderate and imprudent grief of David shows the fond excess of his parental love. " The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept; and as he wept, thus he said : O, my son Absalom ! my son, my sou Absalom! Would to God I had died for thee,... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1834 - 450 pages
...language as that in which David afterwards indulged at the loss of Absalom: " O Absalom, Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom! my son, my son!" Had these young men died in their infancy, there had been a blessed hope of meeting with them again... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...enemies of my lord the king and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is. And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber...went, thus he said, O my son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom . l would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! Then David went back to his house... | |
 | W. E. Trenchard - 1835 - 454 pages
...unnatural son, and which could make him lament his death in those expressions of the keenest anguish—" O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son ! "f He will recur to the history of Samuel—to the strong, disinterested, self-renouncing benevolence... | |
 | David M. Craig - 2000 - 356 pages
...and in prose that aspires to poetry. David's elegaic lament on Absalom's death best illustrates this: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" (327). In God Knows, as in the Bible, this famous lament rings out, communicating the inexpressible... | |
 | Antony F. Campbell, Mark A. O'Brien - 514 pages
...lord the king, and all who rise up to do you harm, be like that young man." 33 The king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 228 pages
...over the city gate, and wept as he went. And thus he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom 1 Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" (II Sam. 18:33). David has paid in full the heavy price, the fourfold price for his sin. David knows... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 600 pages
...that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is” (2 Samuel 18:32). David broke down. “And the king was much moved, and went up to the...the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!”... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 pages
...Absalom, a great wail of anguish burst from his broken heart: “0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!” (2 Samuel 18:33) Viewing the torn body of his handsome son and attending the funeral must have been difficult... | |
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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, my son !' 
