Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

Bible References

The soul of

Genesis 31:30
Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
Philippians 2:26
because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

Longed

Psalm 84:2
My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Psalm 119:20
My soul is crushed with longing
After Your ordinances at all times.

Comforted

2 Samuel 12:23
But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 37:35
Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Genesis 38:12
Now after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.