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2 Samuel 19:2
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his son.
2 Samuel 19:2 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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2 Samuel 19:2 in other translations
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 that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”
The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people, for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”
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In context
1 And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:
2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his son.
3 And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.
4 And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.
5 Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, that 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.
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