2 Samuel 12:23
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."
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 37:35 : 35 All 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.
- Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- Luke 23:43 : 43 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
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- 2 Sam 12:15-228 verses83%
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?"
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."
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?'
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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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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;
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22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.
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33 The 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!"
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10 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
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35 All 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.
- Isa 38:10-112 verses70%
10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
- 2 Sam 13:36-372 verses70%
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.
37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
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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."
- 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 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?"
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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?"
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23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- Job 7:9-102 verses69%
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- 2 Sam 11:26-272 verses69%
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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12 They 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.
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14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
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10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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23 He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."
- Gen 44:29-302 verses68%
29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;
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17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
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21 The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."
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16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go! Return!" and he returned.
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21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
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22 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."
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13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
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1 It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."
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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!"
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20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."
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11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
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3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."
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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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8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;
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3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
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31 David 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.