2 Samuel 12:16-18

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁶ David, therefore, sought God for the child and fasted and went in and lay all night upon the earth.

¹⁷ Then the elders of his house arose to come to him, and to cause him to rise from the ground. But he would not. Nor did he eat food with them.

¹⁸ So, on the seventh day, the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. For they said, “Behold, while the child was alive, we spoke to him. And he would not listen to our voice. How, then, shall we say to him, ‘The child is dead,’ and upset him more?”