Homiletic Review 2 Samuel 19:37 Let your servant, I pray you, turn back again, that I may die in my own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother… In our last great trial, in our conflict with the king of terrors, what a consolation to feel that our friends are about us, that we are at home. 1. How much earthly friends may help us in the hour of death. 2. The limitation of this help. 3. The Christian's consolation that wherever death may overtake him he will die in the midst of friends. His Elder Brother will be there, and God, his father, and he will be encompassed with a host of heavenly witnesses, friends in Jesus Christ. Through death we will go from our earthly home to our heavenly home. (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. |
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