2 Samuel 12:18-20

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁸ On the seventh day the child died. But David’s officials were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. They thought, “While the child was alive, we talked to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may harm ⌞himself⌟.”

¹⁹ But when David saw that his officials were whispering to one another, he realized that the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” David asked them.

“⌞Yes,⌟ he is dead,” they answered.

²⁰ So David got up from the ground, bathed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes. He went into the Lord’s house and worshiped. Then he went home and asked for food. They placed food in front of him, and he ate.