the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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2 Samuel 18:33
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
O my son: 2 Samuel 19:4
would God: 2 Samuel 12:10-23, Psalms 103:13, Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 17:25, James 5:17
Reciprocal: Genesis 21:11 - because Genesis 44:30 - his life Exodus 16:3 - Would Judges 11:35 - rent his clothes 2 Samuel 3:3 - Absalom 2 Samuel 3:32 - lifted 2 Samuel 13:36 - very sore 2 Samuel 14:1 - toward Absalom 2 Samuel 18:20 - because 2 Samuel 19:1 - General 1 Chronicles 3:2 - Absalom Job 1:19 - they are dead Psalms 3:1 - when Proverbs 17:21 - that Proverbs 19:13 - foolish Luke 8:52 - all Acts 26:29 - I would 2 Corinthians 12:15 - though 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - ye sorrow
Cross-References
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.
And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Then the men got up to leave and started out toward Sodom. Abraham walked along with them a short time to send them on their way.
When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Then the men got up from there, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham walked with them to send them on the way.
Therfor whanne the men hadden risen fro thennus, thei dressiden the iyen ayens Sodom; and Abraham yede to gidre, ledynge hem forth.
And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;
When the men got up to leave they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the king was much moved,.... His affections were moved, his passions were stirred up; he was greatly troubled, distressed, and grieved:
and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; got out of sight and company as soon as he could; as his own dwelling was at some distance, he made haste to the chamber in the watchtower, over the gate of the city, where the watchman was, to vent his grief; and could not suppress it till he got thither:
and as he went; up the stairs to the chamber:
thus he said, O my son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom! which repetition expresses the vehemence of his affections, and how inconsolable he was on account of his son's death:
would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! some think he said this on account of his eternal state, being satisfied of his own; but it may be it was only the effect of natural affection, indulged to too great a degree, and unbecoming so good a man in such a case; the Targum is,
"I wish I had died for thee, and thou hadst remained this day.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There is not in the whole of the Old Testament a passage of deeper pathos than this. Compare Luke 19:41. In the Hebrew Bible this verse commences the nineteenth chapter. The King James Version follows the Greek and Latin versions.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Samuel 18:33. O my son Absalom — It is allowed by the most able critics that this lamentation is exceedingly pathetic. In what order the words were pronounced, for much depends on this, we cannot say. Perhaps it was the following: -
בני אבשלום בני Beni Abshalom, beni!
My son Absalom! O my son!
בני אבשלום Beni Abshalom!
O my son Absalom!
מי יתן מותי אני תחתיך
Mi yitten muthi ani thachteicha.
O that I had died in thy stead!
אבשלום בני בני Abshalom, beni! beni!
O Absalom, my son, my son!
Is there no hope for the soul of this profligate young man? He died in his iniquity: but is it not possible that he implored the mercy of his Maker while he hung in the tree? And is it not possible that the mercy of God was extended to him? And was not that suspension a respite, to the end that he might have time to deprecate the wrath of Divine justice?
This is at least a charitable conjecture, and humanity will delight in such a case to lay hold even on possibilities. If there be any room for hope in such a death, who that knows the worth of an immortal soul, would not wish to indulge in it?
