Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Bible References

The soul of

Genesis 31:30
Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father's house. Yet why did you steal my gods?"
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
Philippians 2:26
Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.

Longed

Psalm 84:2
I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
Psalm 119:20
I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.

Comforted

2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!'"
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. "No," he said, "I will go to the grave mourning my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
Genesis 38:12
After some time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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