Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 12:23

2 Samuel chapter 12 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.22And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knoweth whether Jehovah will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

v.23This passage

v.24And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon. And Jehovah loved him;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 7:8

    The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

  • Job 30:23

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

  • Luke 23:43

    And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

  • 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 to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.