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 the king hid his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom my son my son."
Would god
2 Samuel 12:10
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.'
Psalm 103:13
Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear him.
Proverbs 10:1
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.
Proverbs 17:25
An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
General references
2 Samuel 19:1
And it was told Joab, how that the king wept and mourned for Absalom.