Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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!
O my son
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Bible References
O my son
2 Samuel 19:4
and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son."
Would god
2 Samuel 12:10
So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!'
Psalm 103:13
As a father pities [his] children, [so] Yahweh pities those who fear him.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.
Proverbs 17:25
A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.
James 5:17
Elijah was a human being with the same nature as us, and {he prayed fervently} for [it] not to rain, and it did not rain on the land [for] three years and six months.
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2 Samuel 19:1
And it was told to Joab that the king [was] weeping and he mourned over Absalom,