2 Samuel 12:23

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2 Samuel 12:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”

22 David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Luke 23:43

And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

Job 7:8

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

Job 7:9

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Job 7:10

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.