The interpretation timeline

2Sam 19:1

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2Sam 19:1 · Douay-Rheims
“And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“But when king David had suffered this injury at the hands of his impious and unnatural son, he not only bore with him in his mad passion but mourned over him in his death. He certainly was not caught in the meshes of carnal jealousy, seeing that it was not his own injuries but the sins of his son that moved him. For it was on this account he had given orders that his son should not be slain if he were conquered in battle, that he might have a place of repentance after he was subdued. When he was baffled in this design, he mourned over his son's death, not because of his own loss but because he knew to what punishment so impious an adulterer and parricide had been hurried.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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