 | Bourne Hall Draper - Conduct of life - 1827 - 272 pages
...whisper his language, as I tread softly across this chamber of affliction. ' O Absalom ! my son Absalom! Would God I had died for thee! O Absalom, my son, my son !' " I wait with much anxiety to see you ; though, I fear, your coming will be of no service to poor... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Sermons, French - 1827 - 522 pages
...no, nor the loud lamentation of David, when he exclaimed, in an agony of wo, ' O my son Absatom; my son, my son Absalom, would God I had died for thee : O Absalom, my soji, my. »on '.* 2 Sam. xviii. 33 ; no, nor the anguish of Rachel 'weeping for her children, and... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 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 P Not the victory over his enemies, nor all the gratulations of his friends, could solace his sorrows... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 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 ! 37. Hamlet and Horatio. HOT. HAIL to your lordship ! Ham. I am glad to see you well : (approaches.)... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1828 - 506 pages
...lamentation and mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are not." " Oh my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, oh Absalom my son, my son !" Once already had death visited the habitation of this poor... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Christian life - 1828 - 262 pages
...went up to the chamber, he wept and said, c2 " O my son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom ! would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" In David we see the monarch forgotten in the father; in Macduff, after the first paroxysm of sorrow,... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...him, or tofurnixh him vnth evidence, or to promote his morml improvement. When David says, " Would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son !" — he plainly intends — " that I had died in thy ttead." So when it is said — " The fathers... | |
 | Edward Garrard Marsh - 1829 - 382 pages
...unavailing sorrow, which R forced from David his distressing exclamation —' O my son, Absalom, my son, my son, ' Absalom! Would God I had died for thee, ' O Absalom, my son, my son!' It is also an urgent reason for all young christians to be at once earnest in the cause they have embraced,... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - Providence and government of God - 1829 - 442 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! THE THANKSGIVING OF DAVID WHEN THE LORD HAD DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES. 2 SAM.... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...to hear his very heartstrings break, as he goes up into the chamber, weeping, " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" — But when a son is dutiful; and the father sees that he desires, and aims, and endeavours to please... | |
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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! 
