...i» destroyed, and my first-born is on earth no more ! " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ; would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son !" I do not, however, rebel against toy Maker. I feel my loss, and I submit to the will of God. He...

...his language of the intensity of his grief. " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! " says he, " would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son ! " When Jephthah found that his rash vow had doomed to death " his only child ; beside her he had...

...after God's own heart, that exceeding bitter lamentation, " O my son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son, would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son?" Something more parhaps than the yearnings of a fond father's bosom : it might be the apprehension,...

...over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom .l would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son ! Then David went back to his house at Jerusalem. LESSON XCVI. 1 KINGS, CHAP. i. WHEN king David was...

...child, how willingly, how gladly, would I part with it ! 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son .i" But once more, 4. The pious parent cannot but be much distressed in such a circumstance as this,...

...; and this •was the occasion of those moving words, 0 my son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom ! Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son ! We may charitably, and I think very reasonably suppose, that they are not only the expressions of...

...and wept: and as he went, thus he said ; O, my " son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! would " to God I had died for. thee ! O Absalom, my son-, " my son!." I have introduced this passage, with a hope-that gay and thoughtless young men may be properly affected...

...over the gate, exclaiming in all the bitterness of anguish, " O! Absalom, my son, nay son, would to God I had died for thee ; O Absalom , my son, my son ! Joab ventured to reprove his extreme weakness, ness, and expatiated so forcibly on the evil effects...

...the gate, and wept; anil as he went, thus he said; O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son !" But as to the philosopher, " Num fletu ingemuit ? — num lumina flexit ! " Num lachrvmas victus...

...lamentation of David, when he exclaimed in an agony of woe : O my SOIL, Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God I had died for thee : O Absalom, my son, my son ! 2 Sam. xviii. 33. no, nor the anguish of Rachel, weening for her children, and refusing to be comforted...