33And 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!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-33)Absalom’s business is done; and we are now told, I. How David was informed of it. He staid behind at the city of Mahanaim, some miles from the wood where the battle was, and in the utmost border of the land. Absalom’s scattered forces all made homeward toward Jordan, which was the contrary way from Mahanaim, so that his watchmen could not perceive how the battle went, till an express came on purpo…
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