2 Samuel 12:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
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?
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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.
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