2 Samuel 12:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then the Elders of his house arose to come vnto him, & to cause him to rise from the groud: but he would not, neither did he eate meate with them.

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  • 2 Sam 3:35 : 35 Afterwarde all the people came to cause Dauid eate meate while it was yet day, but Dauid sware, saying, So doe God to me and more also, if I taste bread, or ought els till the sunne be downe.
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eate: but his seruants and the woman together compelled him, and he obeyed their voyce: so he arose from the earth, and sate on the bed.

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  • 2 Sam 12:18-23
    6 verses
    84%

    18So on the seuenth day the child dyed: and the seruants of Dauid feared to tell him that the childe was dead: for they sayde, Beholde, while the childe was aliue, we spake vnto him, and he woulde not hearken vnto our voyce: how then shall we say vnto him, The childe is dead, to vexe him more?

    19But when Dauid sawe that his seruantes whispered, Dauid perceiued that the childe was dead: therefore Dauid sayde vnto his seruants, Is the childe dead? And they sayd, He is dead.

    20Then Dauid arose from the earth, and washed and anoynted himselfe, and changed his apparell, and came into the house of the Lorde, and worshipped, and afterward came to his owne house, and bade that they should set bread before him, and he did eate.

    21Then saide his seruants vnto him, What thing is this, that thou hast done? Thou diddest fast and weepe for the childe while it was aliue, but when the childe was dead, thou diddest rise vp, and eate meate.

    22And he sayde, While the childe was yet aliue, I fasted, and wept: for I sayde, Who can tell whether God will haue mercy on me, that the childe may liue?

    23But now being dead, wherefore shoulde I now fast? Can I bring him againe any more? I shall goe to him, but he shall not returne to me.

  • 2 Sam 12:15-16
    2 verses
    82%

    15So Nathan departed vnto his house: and the Lord stroke the childe that Vriahs wife bare vnto Dauid, and it was sicke.

    16Dauid therefore besought God for the childe, and fasted and went in, and lay all night vpon the earth.

  • 1 Sam 28:22-24
    3 verses
    78%

    22Now therefore, I pray thee, hearke thou also vnto ye voyce of thine handmaid, & let me set a morsell of bread before thee, that thou mayest eat and get thee strength, and go on thy iourney.

    23But he refused, and said, I will not eate: but his seruants and the woman together compelled him, and he obeyed their voyce: so he arose from the earth, and sate on the bed.

    24Nowe the woman had a fat calfe in the house, and she hasted, and killed it, and tooke floure and kneaded it, and baked of it vnleauened bread.

  • 2 Sam 3:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34Thine handes were not bounde, nor thy feete tyed in fetters of brasse: but as a man falleth before wicked men, so diddest thou fall; all the people wept againe for him.

    35Afterwarde all the people came to cause Dauid eate meate while it was yet day, but Dauid sware, saying, So doe God to me and more also, if I taste bread, or ought els till the sunne be downe.

  • 1 Sam 20:34
    71%

    34So Ionathan arose from the table in a great anger, and did eate no meate the seconde day of the moneth: for he was sorie for Dauid, and because his father had reuiled him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
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    20And hee tooke him & brought him to his mother, and hee sate on her knees till noone, and dyed.

  • Job 2:13
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    13So they sate by him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe, that the griefe was very great.

  • 2 Sam 11:13
    70%

    13Then Dauid called him, and hee did eate and drinke before him, & he made him drunke: and at euen he went out to lie on his couch with the seruants of his Lorde, but went not downe to his house.

  • 1 Sam 30:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11And they found an Egyptian in the fielde, and brought him to Dauid, and gaue him bread and he did eat, & they gaue him water to drinke.

    12Also they gaue him a fewe figges, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirite came againe to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunke any water in three dayes, and three nightes.

  • 2 Sam 1:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, & rent them, and likewise al the men that were with him.

    12And they mourned and wept, and fasted vntil euen, for Saul and for Ionathan his sonne, & for the people of the Lorde, and for the house of Israel, because they were slaine with the sword.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
    70%

    31Then the King arose, & tare his garments, and lay on the ground, & all his seruants stoode by with their clothes rent.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    69%

    17And after these things, the sonne of the wife of the house fell sicke, and his sicknesse was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

  • Job 33:20
    69%

    20So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
    69%

    22But camest backe againe, and hast eaten bread and drunke water in the place (whereof he did say vnto thee, Thou shalt eate no bread nor drinke any water) thy carkeis shall not come vnto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

  • 2 Sam 11:8-10
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    69%

    8Afterward Dauid said to Vriah, Go downe to thine house, and wash thy feete. So Vriah departed out of the Kings palace, and the king sent a present after him.

    9But Vriah slept at the doore of the Kings palace with all the seruants of his lord, and went not downe to his house.

    10Then they tolde Dauid, saying, Vriah went not downe to his house: and Dauid saide vnto Vriah, Commest thou not from thy iourney? why didst thou not go downe to thine house?

  • Gen 37:35
    69%

    35Then all his sonnes and all his daughters rose vp to comfort him, but he woulde not be comforted, but said, Surely I will go downe into the graue vnto my sonne mourning: so his father wept for him.

  • 1 Sam 28:20
    68%

    20Then Saul fell streight way all along on the earth, and was sore afraide because of the wordes of Samuel, so that there was no strength in him: for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night.

  • Jer 16:7
    68%

    7They shal not stretch out the hands for the in the mourning to comfort them for the dead, neither shal they giue them the cup of consolation to drinke for their father or for their mother.

  • 2 Sam 15:30
    68%

    30And Dauid went vp the mount of oliues and wept as he went vp, and had his head couered, and went barefooted: and al the people that was with him, had euery man his head couered, and as they went vp, they wept.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
    68%

    20Then he called vnto the Lord, and sayde, O Lorde my God, hast thou punished also this widowe, with whome I soiourne, by killing her sonne?

  • 1 Kgs 21:4
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    4Then Ahab came into his house heauie & in displeasure, because of the word which Naboth the Izreelite had spoken vnto him. for hee had sayde, I will not giue thee the inheritance of my fathers, and he lay vpon his bed, and turned his face and would eate no bread.

  • 1 Chr 10:12
    68%

    12Then they arose (all the valiant men) and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabesh, and buryed the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.

  • 2 Sam 19:28
    68%

    28For all my fathers house were but dead men before my lord the king, yet diddest thou set thy seruant among them that did eate at thine owne table: what right therefore haue I yet to crye any more vnto the king?

  • Ezek 24:17
    68%

    17Cease from sighing: make no mourning for the dead, and binde the tyre of thine head vpon thee, and put on thy shooes vpon thy feete, and couer not thy lips, and eate not the bread of men.

  • 2 Sam 3:31
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    31And Dauid said to Ioab, and to al the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and put on sackecloth, and mourne before Abner: and King Dauid him selfe followed the beare.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
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    11And as she was going to fet it, he called to her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.

  • 1 Kgs 1:1
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    1Now when King Dauid was olde, and striken in yeeres, they couered him with clothes, but no heate came vnto him.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
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    17Then Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne,

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
    67%

    12Vp therefore and get thee to thine house: for when thy feete enter into the citie, the childe shall die.

  • 1 Sam 30:4
    67%

    4Then Dauid and the people that was with him, lift vp their voyces and wept, vntill they could weepe no more.

  • 2 Sam 13:36
    67%

    36And assoone as hee had left speaking, behold, the Kings sonnes came, & lift vp their voyces, and wept: and the King also and all his seruants wept exceedingly sore.

  • Ps 35:14
    67%

    14I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.

  • 1 Kgs 13:15-16
    2 verses
    67%

    15Then he said vnto him, Come home with me, and eate bread.

    16But he answered, I may not returne with thee, nor go in with thee, neither wil I eate bread nor drinke water with thee in this place.

  • Matt 12:3
    67%

    3But he said vnto them, Haue ye not read what Dauid did when he was an hungred, & they that were with him?

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
    67%

    32Then came Elisha into the house, and beholde, the childe was dead, and layed vpon his bedde.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
    67%

    42So Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Eliiah went vp to the top of Carmel: and he crouched vnto the earth, & put his face betweene his knees,