2 Samuel 19:1 - Tree of Life Version

¹ The king was shaken. So he went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. As he walked he cried, “My son Absalom! O my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! Absalom, my son, my son!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ IT WAS told Joab, Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

Common English Bible

¹ Joab was told that the king was crying and mourning Absalom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now it was reported to Joab that the king was weeping and mourning for his son.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son.

2 Samuel 19:1 Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons got up along with all his daughters to console him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” So his father kept weeping for him.

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man said to Joab, “Even if I had 1,000 pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king charged you, Abishai and Ittai saying, ‘Watch over the young man Absalom for me.’

2 Samuel 18:14

“I won’t wait for you!” Joab said. So he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2 Samuel 18:20

But Joab said to him, “You are not to be the bearer of news today. You may do it another day, but today you shall bear no news—for the king’s son is dead.”

2 Samuel 18:5

Then the king charged Joab, Abishai and Ittai saying, “Deal gently with the young man Absalom for my sake.” Now all the troops heard the king’s charge to all the commanders concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:2

Then Joab was told, “Look, the king is weeping and mourning over Absalom!”

Proverbs 17:25

A foolish son is grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

Zechariah 12:10

“Then I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, when they will look toward Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son and grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for a firstborn.