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23 But he is dead now. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? No. I am going where he is, but he won’t come back to me.”

24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had sex with her. She gave birth to a son and named him Solomon.[a] The Lord loved him 25 and sent word by the prophet Nathan to name him Jedidiah[b] because of the Lord’s grace.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:24 Qere; Kethib he (David) named
  2. 2 Samuel 12:25 Jedidiah means Loved by the Lord.
  3. 2 Samuel 12:25 Heb uncertain; some Heb and LXX manuscripts by the Lord’s word

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