Quotes about Loss
And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
- 2 Samuel 13:36
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
- 2 Samuel 13:39
“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
- 2 Samuel 14:5
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 18:7
The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
- 2 Samuel 18:33
But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
- 2 Samuel 19:4
During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
- 1 Kings 3:19
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
- 1 Kings 3:20
The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”
- 1 Kings 3:21
Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”
- 1 Kings 13:30
Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.
- 1 Kings 17:17
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
- 2 Kings 4:20