2 Samuel 12:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted and went in and lay all night [repeatedly] on the floor.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁶ David begged God for the boy. He fasted and spent the night sleeping on the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And David begged the Lord on behalf of the little one. And David fasted strictly, and entering alone, he lay upon the ground.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.

2 Samuel 12:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:15

Then Nathan went to his house. The Lord struck the child whom Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became very ill.

2 Samuel 12:22

He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’

2 Samuel 13:31

The king rose, tore his garments, and lay on the ground, and all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Psalm 50:15

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

Psalm 69:10

When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Isaiah 26:16

O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no entertainment was brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

Acts 9:9

For three days he was without sight and neither ate nor drank.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.