...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...

...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...

...showers of blessing." CHILDBEN IN RELIGIOUS HOUSEHOLDS. " O MY son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! ke, 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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, kO my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom ! to 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...

...chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son ! NEVER did parental sorrow vent itself in more pathetic accents, and never was it excited by a more...

...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...

...the gate and tvept, and J as he wept, thus he said, O my son, Absalom ! my son, my son, Absalom .' would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son ,' This ill-timed, though natural grief, roused the indignation of the hardy Joab, and David was constrained...