Verse 33

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!"

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 19:4 : 4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"
• Ps 103:13 : 13 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
• Prov 10:1 : 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
• Prov 17:25 : 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
• Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
• Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
• 2 Sam 12:10-23 : 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'" 13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die. 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die." 15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth. 17 The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. 18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?" 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead." 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate. 21 Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread." 22 He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?' 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."