2 Samuel 12:17

World English Bible (2000)

The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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  • 2 Sam 3:35 : 35 All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down."
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.

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

    18It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"

    19But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."

    20Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.

    21Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread."

    22He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

    23But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."

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

    15Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

    16David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

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

    22Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way."

    23But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.

    24The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.

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

    34Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him.

    35All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down."

  • 1 Sam 20:34
    71%

    34So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

  • 2 Kgs 4:20
    70%

    20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

  • Job 2:13
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    13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

  • 2 Sam 11:13
    70%

    13When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.

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

    11They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

    12They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

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

    11Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him.

    12They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
    70%

    31Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    69%

    17It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

  • Job 33:20
    69%

    20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
    69%

    22but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water;" your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"

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

    8David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." Uriah departed out of the king's house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

    9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.

    10When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven't you come from a journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"

  • Gen 37:35
    69%

    35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

  • 1 Sam 28:20
    68%

    20Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of the words of Samuel. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

  • Jer 16:7
    68%

    7neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

  • 2 Sam 15:30
    68%

    30David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
    68%

    20He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?"

  • 1 Kgs 21:4
    68%

    4Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

  • 1 Chr 10:12
    68%

    12all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

  • 2 Sam 19:28
    68%

    28For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"

  • Ezek 24:17
    68%

    17Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.

  • 2 Sam 3:31
    68%

    31David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
    67%

    11As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

  • 1 Kgs 1:1
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    1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
    67%

    17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
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    12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

  • 1 Sam 30:4
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    4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

  • 2 Sam 13:36
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    36It happened, as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

  • Ps 35:14
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    14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

  • 1 Kgs 13:15-16
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    15Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread."

    16He said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.

  • Matt 12:3
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    3But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

  • 2 Kgs 4:32
    67%

    32When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
    67%

    42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.