2 Samuel 12:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ But he is dead now. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? No. I am going where he is, but he won’t come back to me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Would I be able to bring him back anymore? Instead, I will go to him. Yet truly, he will not return to me."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

2 Samuel 12:23 Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father bewailed him.

1 Kings 2:2

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, be courageous,

Job 10:21

before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Luke 23:43

He replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”