King James Version (KJV)
2 Samuel 19:4
“But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
Verse in context — 2 Samuel 19
And the victory that day was [turned] into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
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David’s reign as king, his triumphs and failures, and God’s covenant with him.
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