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2 Sam. 18:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would Godc I had died for thee, Ob Absalom, my son, my son!

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Rom. 5:7‑8• ⁷For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;
⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us. (Rom. 5:7‑8)

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Rom. 9:3• ³for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh; (Rom. 9:3)

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2 Sam. 19:4• ⁴And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son! (2 Sam. 19:4)

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O my son.

2 Sam. 19:4• ⁴And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son! (2 Sam. 19:4)

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2 Sam. 12:10‑23• ¹⁰Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife.
¹¹Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
¹²For thou didst it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.
¹³And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah has also put away thy sin: thou shalt not die.
¹⁴Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, even the child that is born to thee shall certainly die.
¹⁵And Nathan departed to his house. And Jehovah smote the child that Urijah's wife bore to David, and it became very sick.
¹⁶And David besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
¹⁷And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he ate no bread with them.
¹⁸And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice; and how shall we say to him, The child is dead? he may do some harm.
¹⁹But David saw that his servants whispered, and David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
²⁰Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing, and entered into the house of Jehovah and worshipped; then he came to his own house and required them to set bread before him, and he ate.
²¹And his servants said to him, What thing is this which thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child alive; but as soon as the child is dead, thou dost rise and eat bread.
²²And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I thought, Who knows? perhaps Jehovah will be gracious to me, that the child may live.
²³But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me. (2 Sam. 12:10‑23)

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Psa. 103:13• ¹³As a father pitieth his children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him. (Psa. 103:13)

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Prov. 10:1• ¹The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Prov. 10:1)

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Prov. 17:25• ²⁵A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him. (Prov. 17:25)

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James 5:17• ¹⁷Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months; (James 5:17)

• Often the heart is not broken all at one time; David's heart was broken on three occasions: at the court of Achish when he saw that he had dishonored the Lord and he himself was in the dust (Psa. 34:18); after the loss of his child (Psa. 51:17); and finally in our chapter. Here his humiliation was already complete, yet still his natural affections must be consumed and reduced to ashes so that divine affections alone might occupy his heart. (“Absalom's Death and David's Broken Heart: 2 Samuel 18” by H.L. Rossier)

• From this time onward God has no further need to break David. At last the radiant sun is rising; his heart is full of grace emerging from his cruel trial, and he becomes the dispenser of this divine grace toward others. (“Absalom's Death and David's Broken Heart: 2 Samuel 18” by H.L. Rossier)

• No doubt human sentiments were mixed with all this mourning; this is why David needed to have a broken heart. While it is much, a broken spirit (Psa. 51:17) is not enough. With a broken spirit, self-will cannot be active. Before he had a broken spirit David had followed his own will which had led him into adultery and to Uriah's murder. A broken spirit gives up its own will in order to depend on God (2 Sam. 15:25-26; 16:10-12; 18:4)....But sooner or later our heart must be broken as well as our spirit. Sometimes God begins with the one, sometimes with the other. When Peter wept bitterly he truly had a broken, humbled heart, for brokenness of heart is always accompanied by humiliation (Psa. 51:17). Peter's spirit was not broken until later. (“Absalom's Death and David's Broken Heart: 2 Samuel 18” by H.L. Rossier)

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And the king was much moved, and went up to the upper chamber of the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said thus: O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died in thy stead, O Absalom, my son, my son!