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23 But now he is dead. Why should I be fasting? Am I able to return him again? I am going to him, but he cannot return to me.” 24 David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he called[a] him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him. 25 He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah[b] because of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:24 So Kethib; Qere reads “she called”
  2. 2 Samuel 12:25 Jedidiah means “beloved of Yahweh”