2 Samuel 12:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

2 Samuel 12:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Luke 23:43
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Babes Bereavement Children Contentment Correction Dead (people)Death

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-25)

Nathan, having delivered his message, staid not at court, but went home, probably to pray for David, to whom he had been preaching. God, in making use of him as an instrument to bring David to repentance, and as the herald both of mercy and judgment, put an honour upon the ministry, and magnified his word above all his name. David named one of his sons by Bath-sheba Nathan, in honour of this proph…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

15-23. the Lord struck the child ... and it was very sick--The first visible chastisement inflicted on David appeared on the person of that child which was the evidence and monument of his guilt. His domestics were surprised at his conduct, and in explanation of its singularity, it is necessary to remark that the custom in the East is to leave the nearest relative of a deceased person to the full…