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2 Samuel 18:33

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Absalom;   Ahimaaz;   Bereavement;   David;   House;   Mourning;   Parents;   Readings, Select;   Sorrow;   Weeping;   Thompson Chain Reference - Absalom;   David;   Dead, the;   Grief;   Home;   Joy-Sorrow;   Mourning;   Parental;   Sorrow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parents;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Ahimaaz;   Gate;   House;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Vanity;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Dwellings;   Muth-Labben;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - House;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chamber;   David;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abishai;   David;   Fortification and Siegecraft;   Samuel, Books of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Chamber;   David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahim'a-Az;   Chamber;   Sol'omon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Absalom (1);   Child;   Gate;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahimaaz;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;   Family and Family Life;   Gate;  

Contextual Overview

19Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the Lord has vindicated him by freeing him from his enemies.” 19 Then said Achima`atz the son of Tzadok, Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies. 19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies. 19 Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the good news to the king that Yahweh has vindicated him from the hand of his enemies." 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies." 19 Ahimaaz son of Zadok said to Joab, "Let me run and take the news to King David. I'll tell him the Lord has saved him from his enemies." 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and give the king the good news that the Lord has vindicated him before his enemies." 19Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, said, "Let me run and bring the king news that the LORD has vindicated him by rescuing him from [the power of] his enemies." 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the king news that the LORD has freed him from the hand of his enemies!" 19 Then said Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok, I pray thee, let me runne, and beare the King tidings that the Lorde hath deliuered him out of the hande of his enemies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O my son: 2 Samuel 19:4

would God: 2 Samuel 12:10-23, Psalms 103:13, Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 17:25, James 5:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:11 - because Genesis 44:30 - his life Exodus 16:3 - Would Judges 11:35 - rent his clothes 2 Samuel 3:3 - Absalom 2 Samuel 3:32 - lifted 2 Samuel 13:36 - very sore 2 Samuel 14:1 - toward Absalom 2 Samuel 18:20 - because 2 Samuel 19:1 - General 1 Chronicles 3:2 - Absalom Job 1:19 - they are dead Psalms 3:1 - when Proverbs 17:21 - that Proverbs 19:13 - foolish Luke 8:52 - all Acts 26:29 - I would 2 Corinthians 12:15 - though 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - ye sorrow

Cross-References

Genesis 18:16
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sedom. Avraham went with them to see them on their way.
Genesis 18:16
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Genesis 18:16
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on their way.
Genesis 18:16
Then the men got up to leave and started out toward Sodom. Abraham walked along with them a short time to send them on their way.
Genesis 18:16
When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)
Genesis 18:16
Then the men got up from there, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham walked with them to send them on the way.
Genesis 18:16
Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.
Genesis 18:16
Afterwarde the men did rise vp from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Genesis 18:16
Then the men rose up from there and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.
Genesis 18:16
When the three men got ready to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked part of the way with them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king was much moved,.... His affections were moved, his passions were stirred up; he was greatly troubled, distressed, and grieved:

and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; got out of sight and company as soon as he could; as his own dwelling was at some distance, he made haste to the chamber in the watchtower, over the gate of the city, where the watchman was, to vent his grief; and could not suppress it till he got thither:

and as he went; up the stairs to the chamber:

thus he said, O my son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom! which repetition expresses the vehemence of his affections, and how inconsolable he was on account of his son's death:

would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! some think he said this on account of his eternal state, being satisfied of his own; but it may be it was only the effect of natural affection, indulged to too great a degree, and unbecoming so good a man in such a case; the Targum is,

"I wish I had died for thee, and thou hadst remained this day.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is not in the whole of the Old Testament a passage of deeper pathos than this. Compare Luke 19:41. In the Hebrew Bible this verse commences the nineteenth chapter. The King James Version follows the Greek and Latin versions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 18:33. O my son Absalom — It is allowed by the most able critics that this lamentation is exceedingly pathetic. In what order the words were pronounced, for much depends on this, we cannot say. Perhaps it was the following: -

בני אבשלום בני Beni Abshalom, beni!

My son Absalom! O my son!

בני אבשלום Beni Abshalom!

O my son Absalom!

מי יתן מותי אני תחתיך

Mi yitten muthi ani thachteicha.

O that I had died in thy stead!

אבשלום בני בני Abshalom, beni! beni!

O Absalom, my son, my son!


Is there no hope for the soul of this profligate young man? He died in his iniquity: but is it not possible that he implored the mercy of his Maker while he hung in the tree? And is it not possible that the mercy of God was extended to him? And was not that suspension a respite, to the end that he might have time to deprecate the wrath of Divine justice?

This is at least a charitable conjecture, and humanity will delight in such a case to lay hold even on possibilities. If there be any room for hope in such a death, who that knows the worth of an immortal soul, would not wish to indulge in it?


 
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