 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 pages
...tomb of Lazarus. Witness these. , distressed Davids, who weep as they go, and exclaim, O Absalom my son ! my son Absalom / would God I had died for thee ! 0 Absalom my son, my son I 2 Sam. xviii. 33. Witness these Rachels, who make Rama eeho with their cries, refusing to be comforted,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...father ! look at that society, there is thy son, at whose death thou didst exclaim, O Absalom, my son, would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son! And you,1 too, distressed Rachels ! whose voices are heard, lamenting, weeping, and mourning, refusing... | |
 | Thomas De Witt Talmage - New York (N.Y.) - 1801 - 256 pages
...pressing them against his temples as though he would press them in, crying: "0 Absalom! my son ! my son! Would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom! my son! my son!" My friends, the question which David, the King, asked in regard to his son is the question that resounds... | |
 | 1869
...season ; there shall be showers of blessing." CHILDBEN IN RELIGIOUS HOUSEHOLDS. " O MY son Absalom ! my le stiff and needle-like, though exquisitely delicate, hairs which cover its s I" — was the exceeding bitter cry of David as he went up to vent his grief in the chamber of the... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...child, how willingly, how gladly, would I part with it ! 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom I Would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son .'" But once more, 4. The pious parent cannot but be much distressed in such a circumstance as this, at the... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 614 pages
...and cared not to live but in the name of 'Absalom, goes and weeps and cries out, 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for thee; 0 Absalom, my son, my son! what is this we hear ? That he, whose life Israel valued at ten thousand of theirs, should be exchanged... | |
 | Missions - 1863 - 904 pages
...went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went thus he said, 0 m)' son Absalom ! my son, my son, Absalom, would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son ! " Such is the sad liistory and end of a favourite son, on whom all that wealw of love was squandered... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pages
...went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, kO my son Absalom, my nd ye shall be holy unto me: "for I the LORD am holy, and phave severed you fr ! CHAP. XIX. 1 Joab cauteth the king to cease his mourning. y The Israelites are earnest to bring tne... | |
 | James Lindsay - Dissenters, Religious - 1818 - 520 pages
...Kent up to the chamber oxer the gate, and Kept ; and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee, 0 Absa~ lorn, my son, my son! ----.---p. 175 SERMON VIII. ON MATERNAL AFFECTION, AS THE MOST APPROPRIATE... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1823 - 494 pages
...more touching is the following apostrophe of the leader of Israel's choir ! \ "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! Would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son !" Keeping in mind how far the inspired bards of Israel exceed the poets of Greece and Rome, both in... | |
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The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is." "And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept ; and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom ! my son, my son... 
