2 Samuel 12:17
The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
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2 Samuel 12:17
The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
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2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.
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2 Samuel 12:18
On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself if we tell him that the child is dead?”
2 Samuel 12:19
But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”
2 Samuel 12:20
Then David arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him and he ate.
2 Samuel 12:21
Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
2 Samuel 12:22
He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
2 Samuel 12:12
For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’ ”
2 Samuel 12:15
Then Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
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2 Samuel 3:35
All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else, until the sun goes down.”
Jeremiah 16:7
Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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