2 Samuel 12:16
So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.
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2 Samuel 12:22And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?
1 Kings 21:27Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
Job 20:12Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
Psalms 69:10\69:9\I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
Isaiah 26:16Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
Joel 2:12But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 12:16-26
David's Humiliation; Birth of Solomon. ( b. c. 1036.) 15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. 18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of… Read the whole commentary →