2 Samuel 19:2

1 And Joab was told, “Behold, the king is weeping and ^amourning for Absalom.”

2 So the victory that day was turned into ^amourning for all the people. For the people heard it said that day, “The king is grieved for his son.”

3 And the people¹ stole back ^ainto the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

4 But the king ^acovered his face, and the king cried out with a loud voice, ^b“O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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The victory - was turned into mourning - Instead of rejoicing that a most unnatural and ruinous rebellion had been quashed, the people mourned over their own success, because they saw their king so immoderately afflicted for the loss of his worthless son.

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