Logo
🔍

2 Samuel 12:19-23

2 Samuel 12:19

But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; so David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” And they said, “He is dead.”

2 Samuel 12:20

So David got up from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and when he asked, they served him food, and he ate.

2 Samuel 12:21

Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you got up and ate food.”

2 Samuel 12:22

And he said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I am going to him, but he will not return to me.” Solomon Born