16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.(A)

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16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying(A) in sackcloth[a] on the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have in sackcloth.

16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

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17 The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

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17 The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused,(A) and he would not eat any food with them.(B)

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17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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