Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 18:33

33 ¶ And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate , and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom: would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son .

Retiring himself from all men and business, that he might wholly give up himself to lamentation.

This he might speak from a deep sense of his Eternal state, because he died in his sins, without the least testimony of repentance, and because David himself had by his own si[illegible: 1+ letters]s been the unhappy instrument and occasion of his Sons death.