◄ 2 Samuel 12:17 ►
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Good News Translation
His court officials went to him and tried to make him get up, but he refused and would not eat anything with them.

New Revised Standard Version
The elders of his house stood beside him, urging him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

Contemporary English Version
His officials stood beside him and tried to talk him into getting up. But he would not get up or eat with them.

New American Bible
The elders of his house stood beside him to get him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.

the elders

2 Samuel 3:35 And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

1 Samuel 28:23 But he refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and the woman forced him, and at length hearkening to their voice, he arose from the ground, and sat upon the bed.

Context
David's Loss and Repentance
…16And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground. 17And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.18And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and the servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For they said: Behold when the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice: how much more will he afflict himself if we tell him that the child is dead?…
Cross References
Genesis 24:2
And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,

2 Samuel 3:35
And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

2 Samuel 12:18
And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and the servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For they said: Behold when the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice: how much more will he afflict himself if we tell him that the child is dead?

Psalm 102:4
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Daniel 6:18
And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

2 Samuel 12:16
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