 | Thomas Durant - 1822 - 298 pages
...had died in unnatural and impious rebellion against his father and his God — ' O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!' — Instead of this, he can adopt the language of the same royal mourner, when his infant child, for... | |
 | 1822 - 746 pages
...degree of horror utterly indescribable, which constrains a man to exclaim, " O, my son Absalom; my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O, Absalom, my son, my son !" But so fully is the present life converted into a state of personal calamity, that to depict its... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...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 !" (2 Sam. xviii. 33.) VOL. XVII. Second Series. E It was not the mere separation that drew forth so... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...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 !" (2 Sam. xviii. 33.) The above striking contrast needs no comment of mine, to point out the superiority... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 508 pages
...cared not to live but in the name of Absalom, goes and weeps and cries out, ' O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee ; O Absalom, my son, my son!' What is this we hear ? That he, whose life Israel valued at ten thousand of theirs, should be exchanged... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...following lamentation of the king of Israel. " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son ! " Every expression may be denominated figurative, when employed to denote something to which it was... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 570 pages
...every incensing reflection, and obliged him to lament in an ecstasy of grief — O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom : would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son b ? Such was the humanity of this excellent prince : a humanity that did not in the least proceed from... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pages
...the gate 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1839 - 248 pages
...no more. To John it was indeed a pang : " O my son Absalom ! my son Absalom !" said he, " would to God I had died for thee: O Absalom, my son, my son!" Then sitting for some. time silent, "See," said he, " that ye call on me in the day of trouble, I will... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...gate, 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 !" PROFESSOR PORS0N. The Professor Person was remarkable for a strong memory, which was not so puzzling... | |
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And 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! 
