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2 Samuel 12:21-23
Common English Bible
2 Samuel 12:21-23
Common English Bible
21 “Why are you acting this way?” his servants asked. “When the child was alive, you fasted and cried and kept watch,[a] but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat food!”
22 David replied, “While the child was alive I fasted and wept because I thought, Who knows? The Lord may have mercy on me and let the child live. 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.”
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- 2 Samuel 12:21 LXXL, OL; MT lacks kept watch.
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