Children: Grief Occasioned by Loss of

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. …

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”