2 Samuel 3:35

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:12

And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

2 Samuel 3:34

Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.

2 Samuel 3:36

And all the people took note of it and were pleased: like everything the king did, it was pleasing to the people.

2 Samuel 3:9

May God's punishment be on Abner, if I do not for David as the Lord in his oath has said,

1 Chronicles 10:12

All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body and the bodies of his sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their bones to rest under the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food for seven days.

Jeremiah 16:7

No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

Ezekiel 24:17

Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

Ezekiel 24:22

And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

Judges 20:23

Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and saying, Am I to go forward again to the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.

Judges 20:26

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

Ruth 1:17

Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.

1 Samuel 3:17

And he said, What did the Lord say to you? Do not keep it from me: may God's punishment be on you if you keep from me anything he said to you.