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2 Samuel 12 📜 📕 ↷
16 And David besought our Lord for the child: and David fasted a fast, and going in aside, lay upon the ground.📜💬📚
17 And the ancients of his house came, being earnest with him, that he would rise from the ground: who would not, neither did he eat meat with them.📜💬📚
18 And it chanced the seventh day that the infant died: and the servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For they said: Behold when the child yet lived, we spake to him, and he heard not our voice: how much more if we shall say, The child is dead, will he afflict himself?📜💬📚
19 When David therefore saw his servants muttering, he understood that the infant was dead: and he said to his servants: Is the child dead? Who answered him: He is dead.📜💬📚
20 David therefore rose from the ground; and was washed and anointed: and when he had changed his garment, he entered into the house of our Lord: and adored, and came into his own house, and he called for bread, and he did eat.📜💬📚
21 And his servants said unto him: What thing is this, that thou hast done? For the infant, when he yet lived, thou didst fast and weep: but the child being dead, thou didst rise up, and hast eaten bread.📜💬📚
22 Who said: For the infant, whiles he yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said: Who knoweth if perhaps our Lord will give him to me, and the infant may live?📜💬📚
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