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{Sheol is the place of the dead or the grave.} 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%
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.
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 vex 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 said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat 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?
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39[the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
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24David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
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22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
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33The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!
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10Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
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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{Sheol is the place of the dead or the grave.} to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
- Isa 38:10-112 verses70%
10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
- 2 Sam 13:36-372 verses70%
36It happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
37But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day.
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21When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, 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%
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.
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20He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?
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10Absalom, 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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23For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- Job 7:9-102 verses69%
9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
- 2 Sam 11:26-272 verses69%
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.
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12and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, 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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14If 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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10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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23He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.
- Gen 44:29-302 verses68%
29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
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17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
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21The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.
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16Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return: and he returned.
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21Why 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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22But his flesh on him has pain; His soul within him mourns."
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13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."
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1It was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.
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4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!
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20Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? return you, 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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21Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
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3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, [and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me.
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23Then said the king, 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, and my son is the living.
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8"If I go east, he is not there; If west, I can't find him;
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3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
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31David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.