2 Samuel 12:23

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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.

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  • Gen 37:35 : 35 All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "I will go down to Sheol mourning my son." And his father wept for him.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more. 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return. 10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
  • Luke 23:43 : 43 And Jesus replied, 'Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in paradise.'

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    15After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became ill.

    16David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying on the ground in sackcloth.

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

    18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, 'While the child was still alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

    19David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized that the child was dead. 'Is the child dead?' he asked. 'Yes,' they replied, 'he is dead.'

    20Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions, and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.

    21His attendants asked him, 'Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!'

    22David answered, 'While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.''

  • 2 Sam 13:39
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    39King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled concerning Amnon’s death.

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    24Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him,

  • Job 16:22
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    22For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.

  • Jer 22:10
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    10Do not weep for the dead; do not mourn for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will never return to see his native land.

  • Gen 37:35
    70%

    35All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "I will go down to Sheol mourning my son." And his father wept for him.

  • Isa 38:10-11
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    10I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

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    20The servant carried the boy to his mother, and the child sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

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