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2 Samuel 12:16

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David pleaded with God for the child; he fasted and lay on the ground all night.

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Then Nathan went home. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had given birth to for David so that the child became sick.

David answered, “As long as the child was alive, I fasted and cried. I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.’

The king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing beside him with their clothes torn ⌞to show their grief⌟.

When Ahab heard these things, he tore his clothes ⌞in distress⌟ and dressed in sackcloth. He fasted, lay in sackcloth, and walked around depressed.

When I heard this, I sat down and cried. I mourned for days. I continued to fast and pray to the God of heaven.

“Assemble all the Jews in Susa. Fast for me: Do not eat or drink at all for three entire days. My servants and I will also fast. After that, I will go to the king, even if it is against a royal decree. If I die, I die.”

Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.”

I cried and fasted, but I was insulted for it.

On that day the Almighty Lord of Armies will call for crying and for mourning, for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth.

O Lord, the people have come to you in trouble. They were humbled by oppression, by your discipline upon them.

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night without food or company. He couldn’t get to sleep.

So I turned to the Lord God and looked to him for help. I prayed, pleaded, and fasted in sackcloth and ashes.

Who knows? God may reconsider his plans and turn from his burning anger so that we won’t die.”

For three days he couldn’t see and didn’t eat or drink.

Joshua and the leaders of Israel tore their clothes in grief. They put dust on their heads and bowed down to the ground in front of the Lord’s ark. They stayed there until evening.




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