2 Samuel 19:1

Good News Translation

Joab was told that King David was weeping and mourning for Absalom.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “I will go down to the world of the dead still mourning for my son.” So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man answered, “Even if you gave me a thousand pieces of silver, I wouldn't lift a finger against the king's son. We all heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake don't harm the young man Absalom.’

2 Samuel 18:14

“I'm not going to waste any more time with you,” Joab said. He took three spears and plunged them into Absalom's chest while he was still alive, hanging in the oak tree.

2 Samuel 18:20

“No,” Joab said, “today you will not take any good news. Some other day you may do so, but not today, for the king's son is dead.”

2 Samuel 18:33

The king was overcome with grief. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he cried, “O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son! If only I had died in your place, my son! Absalom, my son!”

2 Samuel 18:5

He gave orders to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake don't harm the young man Absalom.” And all the troops heard David give this command to his officers.

2 Samuel 19:2

And so the joy of victory was turned into sadness for all of David's troops that day, because they heard that the king was mourning for his son.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.

Zechariah 12:10

“I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.