2 Samuel 12:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵ Then Nathan left the king’s presence and went down to his house.

The Eternal One struck the child born to Uriah’s widow and David so that he became very sick. ¹⁶ So David appealed to the True God for the life of his son. David went without food; he lay on the ground praying all night. ¹⁷ The elders from his household, the most highly honored of his servants, tried to pull him up off the ground and to make him eat, but he would not.