On 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!”
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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!’”
13Then David exclaimed to Nathan,“I have sinned against the LORD!” Nathan replied to David,“Yes, and the LORD has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.
14Nonetheless, because you have treated the LORD with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”
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.
17The 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.
36Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. The king and all his servants wept loudly as well.
37But Absalom fled and went to King Talmai son of Ammihud of Geshur. And David grieved over his son every day.
12“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.
20But Joab said to him,“You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, for the king’s son is dead.”
31Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him,“The child did not wake up.”
32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.
30While they were still on their way, the following report reached David:“Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”
4David inquired,“How were things going? Tell me!” He replied,“The people fled from the battle and many of them fell dead. Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!”
5David said to the young man who was telling him this,“How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
19This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.
20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”
24When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,
19He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”
20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for him.
27When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the LORD.
15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.
16But the king said,“You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
17Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.
33(19:1) The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said,“My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!”
1(19:2) Joab was told,“The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”
2So the victory of that day was turned to mourning as far as all the people were concerned. For the people heard on that day,“The king is grieved over his son.”
20As she was dying, the women who were there with her said,“Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention.
5Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan,“As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
17After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
38After about ten days the LORD struck Nabal down and he died.
11Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking,“This way they can’t tell on us, saying,‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
17So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.
39The king longed to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.
10But Absalom, whom we anointed as our king, has died in battle. So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back?”
7If he should then say,‘That’s fine,’ then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me.
7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.
31When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
23Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.
12So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.
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?”
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.
1¶ Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.