2 Samuel 12:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So 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.

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  • Job 1:20 : 20 Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.
  • Ruth 3:3 : 3 So bathe yourself, rub on some perfumed oil, and get dressed up. Then go down to the threshing floor. But don’t let the man know you’re there until he finishes his meal.
  • 2 Sam 6:17 : 17 They brought the ark of the LORD and put it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 7:18 : 18 David Offers a Prayer to God King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said,“Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.
  • Eccl 9:8 : 8 Let your clothes always be white, and do not spare precious ointment on your head.
  • Lam 3:39-41 : 39 Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? 40 נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:
  • Matt 6:17 : 17 When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

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  • 2 Sam 12:21-24
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    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!’”

    24So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He came to her and went to bed with her. Later she gave birth to a son, and David named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

  • 2 Sam 12:15-19
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    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.

    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.”

  • 2 Sam 3:35
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    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!”

  • 2 Sam 11:8
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    8Then David said to Uriah,“Go down to your home and relax.” When Uriah left the palace, the king sent a gift to him.

  • 2 Sam 1:2
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    2On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he approached David, the man threw himself to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 15:30
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 16:12
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    12So Jesse had him brought in. Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The LORD said,“Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

  • 2 Sam 7:18
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    18David Offers a Prayer to God King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said,“Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

  • 1 Sam 20:41
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    41When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, knelt with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

  • 1 Chr 29:20
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    20David told the entire assembly:“Praise the LORD your God!” So the entire assembly praised the LORD God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the LORD and the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:28
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    28David Picks Solomon as His Successor King David responded,“Summon Bathsheba!” She came and stood before the king.

  • Job 1:20
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    20Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 6:20
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    20When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. She said,“How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!”

  • 1 Chr 17:16
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    16David Praises God King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said:“Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

  • 2 Sam 11:13
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 15:32
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    32When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

  • 2 Sam 24:19-20
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    19So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the LORD’s instructions.

    20When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.

  • 1 Sam 24:8
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    8Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul,“My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

  • 1 Sam 30:11-12
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 21:28
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    28At that time, when David saw that the LORD responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

  • 2 Sam 1:11-12
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 21:21
    69%

    21When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 24:17
    69%

    17When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the LORD,“Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep– what have they done? Attack me and my family.”

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
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    32King David said,“Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king,

  • 2 Sam 6:14
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    14Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 24:25
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    25Then David built an altar for the LORD there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the LORD accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
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    15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

  • 2 Sam 6:12
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    12King David was told,“The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

  • 2 Sam 6:18
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    18When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • 1 Sam 28:23-24
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    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 24:11
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    11When David got up the next morning, the LORD’s message had already come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer:

  • 2 Sam 13:7
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    7So David sent Tamar to the house saying,“Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him.”

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    2When David finished offering burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the LORD’s name.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

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    24So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

  • 1 Sam 30:7
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    7Then David said to the priest Abiathar son of Ahimelech,“Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

  • 1 Chr 21:18
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    18So the LORD’s angel told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.