2 Samuel 12:19
But 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."
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- 2 Sam 12:13-186 verses90%
13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
14 However, 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."
15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
17 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.
18 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?"
- 2 Sam 12:20-245 verses79%
20 Then 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.
21 Then 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."
22 He 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?'
23 But 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."
24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
- 2 Kgs 4:31-322 verses73%
31 Gehazi 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."
32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
- 2 Sam 1:4-52 verses72%
4 David 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."
5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"
- 1 Kgs 3:19-235 verses72%
19 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
20 She 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.
21 When 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."
22 The other woman said, "No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son." This said, "No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.
23 Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;' and the other says, 'No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'"
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15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.
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39 [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
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36 It 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.
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12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
- 2 Sam 13:30-312 verses70%
30 It 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!"
31 Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
- 1 Sam 22:16-172 verses70%
16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."
17 The 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.
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24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."
- 2 Sam 11:26-272 verses70%
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27 When 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.
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10 Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?"
- 2 Kgs 4:19-202 verses69%
19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
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20 Joab 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."
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12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.
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1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
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20 He 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 Sam 19:14-152 verses68%
14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
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39 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
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27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
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4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"
- 2 Sam 19:1-22 verses68%
1 It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."
2 The 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."
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17 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
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33 Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead."
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1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.
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7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
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20 About 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.