2 Samuel 12:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

But 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.

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  • Gen 37:35 : 35 And 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.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
  • Luke 23:43 : 43 And Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in paradise.

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    17The 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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