2 Samuel 12:15-21
1599 Geneva Bible
15 ¶ So Nathan departed unto his house: and the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was sick.
16 David therefore besought God for the child, and fasted and [a]went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17 Then the Elders of his house arose to come unto him, and to cause him to rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat [b]meat with them.
18 So on the seventh day the child died: and the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how then shall we say unto him, The child is dead, [c]to vex him more?
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David [d]arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped, and afterward came to his own house, and bade that they should set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then [e]said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat meat,
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- 2 Samuel 12:16 To wit, to his privy chamber.
- 2 Samuel 12:17 Thinking by his instant prayer that God would have restored his child, but God hath otherwise determined.
- 2 Samuel 12:18 Hebrew, and he will do himself evil.
- 2 Samuel 12:20 Showing that our lamentations ought not to be excessive, but moderate: and that we must praise God in all his doings.
- 2 Samuel 12:21 As they which considered not that God granteth many things to the sobs and tears of the faithful.
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