2 Samuel 12:23 KJV — MannaFest

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he is dead, wherefore 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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ASV

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

WEB

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

YLT

and now, he hath died, why is this--I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

DBT

But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

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2 Samuel — David's reign in three movements — rise, fall, consequences — with the Davidic covenant (ch. 7) as the vertical spine down the centre. A covenant held through both rise and fall; a throne established for ever.

Author: Traditional: compilation by Nathan and Gad from Samuel's earlier records (1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1010–970 BC; compilation during Solomon's early reign

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Job 10:21
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Luke 23:43
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

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Job 7:8

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Bath-sheba . . . bare a son, and he called his name Solomon--that is, "peaceable." But Nathan gave him the name of Jedediah, by command of God, or perhaps only as an expression of God's love. This love and the noble gifts with which he was endowed, considering the criminality of the marriage from which he sprang, is a remarkable instance of divine goodness and grace.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

We shall be with them shortly, to part no more. Though David's marrying Bath-sheba had displeased the Lord, yet he was not therefore commanded to divorce her; so far from this that God gave him that son by her on whom the covenant of royalty should be entailed. Bath-sheba, no doubt, was greatly afflicted with the sense of her sin and the tokens of God's displeasure.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

I fast - Seeing fasting and prayer cannot now prevail with God for his life. I shall go to him - Into the state of the dead in which he is, and into heaven, where I doubt not I shall find him.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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