2 Samuel 12:23

And now, he has died, why [is] this—I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, and he does not return to me.”

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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 says, “While the boy is alive I have fasted and I weep, for I said, Who knows [if] YHWH pities me and the boy has lived?

24And David comforts his wife Bathsheba, and goes in to her, and lies with her, and she bears a son, and he calls his name Solomon; and YHWH has loved him,

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Cross References

1 Kings 2:2“I am going in the way of all the earth, and you have been strong, and become a man,

Job 7:10He does not turn to his house again, || Nor does his place discern him again.

Luke 23:43and Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will 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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