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2 Samuel 12:23

“But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.””

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²¹“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”

²²David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

²³But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

²⁴Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child

²⁵And sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

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