The news of his death was borne to David, who was exceedingly affected thereby. In a moment a thousand tender recollections rushed upon his mind. He thought of the promise of the boy, the beauty of the man and his ignominious and fatal end. The joy of victory was lost in the grief of so sad an end to a favorite son. Many were called Jews who were inwardly heathen.
Personal beauty is itself a good, but easily abused.
Sarah s beauty led both herself and her husband into trouble. Bathsheba s beauty was the occasion of Uriah s death and David s crimes. Beauty is a good thing easily abused. Absalom s murder of his brother was doubtless as capable of plausible defence as most of the duels, assassinations and murders of our times, and yet it was a wicked and a bloody affair. David greatly erred in not treating it as a murder, to be condignly punished.