It 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?"
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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."
13David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
14However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
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.
17The 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.
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.
37But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
20Joab said to him, "You shall not be the bearer of news this day, but you shall bear news another day. But today you shall bear no news, because the king's son is dead."
31Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."
32When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
30It happened, while they were in the way, that the news came to David, saying, "Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left!"
4David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."
5David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"
19This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore."
24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."
19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
26When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
15David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.
16The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."
17The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
33The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!"
1It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."
2The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son."
20About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son." But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.
5David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
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.
38It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
11David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying, 'So did David, and so has been his way all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'"
17Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
39[the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
10Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?"
7If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
7The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
23Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.
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?"
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.
1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.