Thematic Bible: Grief occasioned by loss of
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David was sad for a long time because Amnon was dead.
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All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.
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Our father said, 'You know that my wife Rachel bore me only two sons. One has already left me. He must have been torn to pieces by wild animals, because I have not seen him since he left. If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'
O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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This is what Jehovah says: 'A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.'
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- Afflicted To Death
- Ashes
- Ashes Of Humiliation
- Bereavement, Experience Of
- Bethlehem
- Comfort, Of Friends
- Despair, Description Of
- Gospel, Confirmation Of
- Grave, The
- Lamenting
- Loneliness