2 Samuel 12:17-19

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁷ The older leaders in his palace stood beside him to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling. And he wouldn’t eat with them.

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.