2 Samuel 12:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

The elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat with them.

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  • 2 Sam 3:35 : 35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was yet day, David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else until the sun is down.
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

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

    18And it came to pass on the seventh day, the child died. The servants of David were afraid to tell him the child was dead: for they said, While the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us: how then will he vex himself, if we tell him the child is dead?

    19But when David saw his servants whispering, he perceived the child was dead: therefore David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.

    20Then David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, changed his clothing, came into the house of the LORD, and worshiped: then he went to his own house; when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

    21His servants said to him, What is this you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate.

    22He said, While the child was alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell if God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

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

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

    15And Nathan departed to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it became very sick.

    16David therefore pleaded with God for the child; and he fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

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

    22Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.

    23But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

    24The woman had a fat calf in the house; she hurried, killed it, and took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

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

    34Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before wicked men, so you fell. And all the people wept again over him.

    35And when all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was yet day, David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else until the sun is down.

  • 1 Sam 20:34
    71%

    34So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no food the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
    70%

    20And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

  • Job 2:13
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    13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

  • 2 Sam 11:13
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    13Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

  • 1 Sam 30:11-12
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    70%

    11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they made him drink water;

    12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

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

    11Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

    12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
    70%

    31Then the king arose, tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    69%

    17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • Job 33:20
    69%

    20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
    69%

    22But came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which the LORD said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.

  • 2 Sam 11:8-10
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    69%

    8And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet. So Uriah departed from the king's house, and a gift of food from the king followed him.

    9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

    10When they told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?

  • Gen 37:35
    69%

    35And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave mourning my son. Thus his father wept for him.

  • 1 Sam 28:20
    68%

    20Then Saul fell immediately full length on the ground, and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day nor all night.

  • Jer 16:7
    68%

    7Nor shall anyone break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.

  • 2 Sam 15:30
    68%

    30And David went up by the ascent of Mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
    68%

    20And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have You also brought calamity upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

  • 1 Kgs 21:4
    68%

    4And Ahab came into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

  • 1 Chr 10:12
    68%

    12All the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

  • 2 Sam 19:28
    68%

    28For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those that eat at your own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry anymore to the king?

  • Ezek 24:17
    68%

    17Refrain from crying, make no mourning for the dead, bind the turban of your head upon you, and put on your shoes upon your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

  • 2 Sam 3:31
    68%

    31And David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And King David himself followed the bier.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
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    11And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Please, bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.

  • 1 Kgs 1:1
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    1Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gained no warmth.

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    17And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

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    12Arise therefore, go to your own house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

  • 1 Sam 30:4
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    4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

  • 2 Sam 13:36
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    36And it came to pass, as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

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    14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.

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    42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,