2 Samuel 12:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:35

Then they came to urge David to eat food while it was still day, but David took an oath: ‘May God punish me and do so severely if I taste bread or anything else before sunset! ’

1 Samuel 28:23

He refused, saying, ‘I won’t eat,’ but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them.  He got up off the ground and sat on the bed.

Genesis 24:2

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, ‘Place your hand under my thigh,

2 Samuel 12:18

On the seventh day the baby died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him the baby was dead. They said, ‘Look, while the baby was alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. So how can we tell him the baby is dead? He may do something desperate.’

Daniel 6:18

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting.  No diversions  were brought to him, and he could not sleep.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.’ And his father wept for him.