2 Samuel 18:33 Cross References - CAB

³³ And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And thus he said as he went, My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! I pray God I had died for you, even I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!

³² And now if You will forgive their sin, forgive; and if not, blot me out of Your book, which You have written.

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and you have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be your wife. ¹¹ Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives from before your eyes, and will give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. ¹² For you did it in secret, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in broad daylight. ¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die. ¹⁴ Only because you have given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, your son also that is born to you shall surely die. ¹⁵ And Nathan departed to his house. And the Lord struck the child, which the wife of Uriah the Hittite bore to David, and it was ill. ¹⁶ And David inquired of God concerning the child, and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground. ¹⁷ And the elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not rise, nor did he eat bread with them. ¹⁸ And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive we spoke to him, and he hearkened not to our voice; and should we tell him now that the child is dead?-- so would he do himself harm. ¹⁹ And David knew that his servants were whispering, and David perceived that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. ²⁰ Then David rose up from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes, and went into the house of God, and worshipped Him; and he went into his own house, and called for bread to eat, and they set bread before him and he ate. ²¹ And his servants said to him, What is this thing that you have done concerning the child? While the child was yet living you fasted and wept, and kept watch; but when the child was dead you rose up and ate bread, and drank. ²² And David said, While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child should live? ²³ But now it is dead, why should I fast thus? Shall I be able to bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

⁴ And the king hid his face. And the king cried with a loud voice, My son Absalom! Absalom my son!

¹³ As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear Him.

¹ A wise son makes his father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

²⁵ A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

³ For I could wish that I myself to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my countrymen according to the flesh,

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of similar nature to us, and with a prayer, he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.