2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.
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2 Samuel 12:22He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether the Lord will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
1 Kings 21:27It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Job 20:12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,though he hide it under his tongue,
Psalms 69:10When I wept and I fasted,that was to my reproach.
Isaiah 26:16Lord, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Joel 2:12"Yet even now," says the Lord, "turn to me with all your heart,and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
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 →