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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 God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

18:33 my son, my son. David’s excessive lamenting probably involved a belated realization of the fact that he himself had indirectly (first, by his murder of Uriah, second, by his inaction regarding the rape of Tamar) caused the death of both Amnon and Absalom.


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