2 Samuel 12:23

But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

In Context

22And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I thought, Who knows? [perhaps] Jehovah will be gracious to me, that the child may live.

24And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon; and Jehovah loved him.

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Cross References

1 Kings 2:2I go the way of all the earth: be of good courage therefore, and be a man;

Job 7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again.

Luke 23:43And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

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 →

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