2 Samuel 12:23
But 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!’”
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 37:35 : 35 All 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.
- Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. 9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again. 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
- Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
- Luke 23:43 : 43 And Jesus said to him,“I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
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- 2 Sam 12:15-228 verses83%
15 Then Nathan went to his home. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.
16 Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.
17 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.
18 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!”
19 When 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.”
20 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.
21 His 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!”
22 He 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.
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39 The king longed to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.
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24 So 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
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22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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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!”
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10 Judgment on Jehoahaz“‘Do not weep for the king who was killed. Do not grieve for him. But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile. For he will never return to see his native land again.
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35 All 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.
- Isa 38:10-112 verses70%
10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
- 2 Sam 13:36-372 verses70%
36 Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived, wailing and weeping. The king and all his servants wept loudly as well.
37 But Absalom fled and went to King Talmai son of Ammihud of Geshur. And David grieved over his son every day.
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21 I 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.”
- 2 Kgs 4:19-202 verses69%
19 He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”
20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
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20 Then 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?”
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10 But Absalom, whom we anointed as our king, has died in battle. So now why do you hesitate to bring the king back?”
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23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
- Job 7:9-102 verses69%
9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.
10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
- 2 Sam 11:26-272 verses69%
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for him.
27 When 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.
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12 They 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.
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14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
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10 Then David passed away and was buried in the City of David.
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23 He said,“Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said,“Everything’s fine.”
- Gen 44:29-302 verses68%
29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.
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17 David’s Tribute to Saul and Jonathan Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.
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21 Then the king said to Joab,“All right! I will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!”
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16 Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him,“Go back!” So he returned home.
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21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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22 His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”
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13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
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1 (19:2) Joab was told,“The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”
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4 The king covered his face and cried out loudly,“My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!”
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20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men with you. May genuine loyal love protect you!”
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11 Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
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3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab,“Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”
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23 The king said,“One says,‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says,‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”
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8 The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.
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3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
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31 David 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.