2 Samuel 12:23

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 said: Who knoweth whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

24And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him;

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Cross References

1 Kings 2:2'I go the way of all the earth; be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;

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

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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