THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 18:33Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son Absalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom my son, my son Absalom.
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Sam 19:4And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.
- Ps 103 (102):13
- 2 Sam 12:10Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to be thy wife.
- 2 Sam 12:23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.
- Prov 10:1A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
- Prov 17:25A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
- Ex 32:32Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.
- Rom 9:3For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh: