Quotes about Tragedy
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
Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”
- 2 Samuel 19:1
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
When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
- 2 Samuel 21:11
During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
- 1 Kings 3:19
As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
- 1 Kings 13:24
As for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.
- 1 Kings 14:12
Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
- 1 Kings 14:17
When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died
- 1 Kings 16:18
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
“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
- 1 Kings 17:18
Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”
- 1 Kings 17:20