...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 neither...

...showers of blessing." CHILDREN IN RELIGIOUS HOUSEHOLDS. " O MY son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son \" — was the exceeding bitter cry of David as he went up to vent his grief in the chamber of the...

...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,...

...; and this •was the occasion of those moving words, O my son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom I 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, 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 !" But as to the philosopher, " Num flctu ingemuit > — num lumina flexit > " Num hichryinas 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...

...language like that ot David, bewailing the sad catastrophe : " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom : would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son." Thu> we see, that the very connexions which make up a great part or what we call happiness in this...

...that made David with such bitterness of soul exclaim, " O " my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom : " would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my " son, my son !" Had Absalom died in his infancy, what sharp pangs would David have escaped ! We now proceed to consider...