2 Samuel 13:31
Good News Translation
The king stood up, tore his clothes in sorrow, and threw himself to the ground. The servants who were there with him tore their clothes also.

New Revised Standard Version
The king rose, tore his garments, and lay on the ground; and all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.

Contemporary English Version
David got up, and in his sorrow he tore his clothes and lay down on the ground. His servants remained standing, but they tore their clothes too.

New American Bible
The king stood up, tore his garments, and lay on the ground. All his servants standing by him also tore their garments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.

arose

2 Samuel 12:16 And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.

Genesis 37:29,34 And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy: . . .

Joshua 7:6 But Joshua rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before the ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.

Job 1:20 Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

all his servants

2 Samuel 1:11 Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.

2 Samuel 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

Context
Absalom's Revenge on Amnon
30And while they were yet in the way, a rumour came to David, saying: Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one them left. 31Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.32But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David's brother answering, said: Let not my lord the king think that all the king's sons are slain: Ammon only is dead, for he was appointed by the mouth of Absalom from the day that he ravished his sister Thamar.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.

2 Samuel 12:16
And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.

2 Samuel 13:30
And while they were yet in the way, a rumour came to David, saying: Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one them left.

2 Samuel 13:30
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