And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.

Ver. 36. And the king also … wept very sore.] Heb., With a great weeping greatly: this was the product of his sweet sin with Bathsheba. Macrobius telleth us that the Romans placed the image of Angeronia upon the altar of Volupia. And the poets feign that pleasure and pain once accused one another before Jupiter: and that whenas he could not decide the controversies between them, be tied them together with a chain of adamant, and so made them inseparable companions.

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