2 Samuel 12:15-17

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁵ Then Nathan went home.

The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had given birth to for David so that the child became sick. ¹⁶ David pleaded with God for the child; he fasted and lay on the ground all night. 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.