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.”
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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.”
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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.
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.
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 12:24
David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
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Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
Job 7:10
He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
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1 Samuel 3:18
Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
2 Samuel 15:26
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
2 Kings 20:19
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”
Job 1:21
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
Mark 14:36
He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
John 18:11
Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
Acts 21:14
When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
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2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 10:21
before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Job 14:12
so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 14:13
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
Psalms 39:13
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”
Isaiah 38:11
I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Genesis 15:15
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
2 Chronicles 34:28
“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back this message to the king.
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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.
2 Samuel 13:39
King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
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1 Samuel 28:19
Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”
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