2 Samuel 12:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

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  • 2 Sam 3:35 : 35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying,“God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 But he refused, saying,“I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

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

    18On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said,“While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”

    19When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants,“Is the child dead?” They replied,“Yes, he’s dead.”

    20So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.

    21His servants said to him,“What is this that you have done? While the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

    22He replied,“While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,‘Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.

    23But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back at this point? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”

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

    15Then Nathan went to his home. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.

    16Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

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

    22Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”

    23But he refused, saying,“I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.

    24Now the woman had a well-fed calf at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded it and baked bread without leaven.

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

    34Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.”All the people wept over him again.

    35Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying,“God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”

  • 1 Sam 20:34
    71%

    34Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
    70%

    20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

  • Job 2:13
    70%

    13Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

  • 2 Sam 11:13
    70%

    13Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

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

    11Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.

    12They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

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

    11David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

    12They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the LORD’s people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
    70%

    31Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    69%

    17After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

  • Job 33:20
    69%

    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
    69%

    22You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”

  • 2 Sam 11:8-10
    3 verses
    69%

    8Then David said to Uriah,“Go down to your home and relax.” When Uriah left the palace, the king sent a gift to him.

    9But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

    10So they informed David,“Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah,“Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?”

  • Gen 37:35
    69%

    35All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled.“No,” he said,“I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

  • 1 Sam 28:20
    68%

    20Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, not having eaten anything all that day and night.

  • Jer 16:7
    68%

    7No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

  • 2 Sam 15:30
    68%

    30As David was going up the Mount of Olives, he was weeping as he went; his head was covered and his feet were bare. All the people who were with him also had their heads covered and were weeping as they went up.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
    68%

    20Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

  • 1 Kgs 21:4
    68%

    4So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said,“I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, pouted, and would not eat.

  • 1 Chr 10:12
    68%

    12all the warriors went and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their remains under the oak tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.

  • 2 Sam 19:28
    68%

    28After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! What further claim do I have to ask the king for anything?”

  • Ezek 24:17
    68%

    17Groan to moan for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”

  • 2 Sam 3:31
    68%

    31David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him,“Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!” Now King David followed behind the funeral pallet.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
    67%

    11As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.”

  • 1 Kgs 1:1
    67%

    1¶ Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
    67%

    17David’s Tribute to Saul and Jonathan Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
    67%

    12“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

  • 1 Sam 30:4
    67%

    4Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.

  • 2 Sam 13:36
    67%

    36Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. The king and all his servants wept loudly as well.

  • Ps 35:14
    67%

    14I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.

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

    15He then said to him,“Come home with me and eat something.”

    16But he replied,“I can’t go back with you. I am not allowed to eat food or to drink water with you in this place.

  • Matt 12:3
    67%

    3He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
    67%

    32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
    67%

    42So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.