2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead, therefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
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21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing this that you hast done? you didst fast and weep for the child, alive; but when the child was dead, you didst rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
23 But now he is dead, therefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Yahuah loved him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Yahuah.