2 Samuel 3:35

New American Bible - revised edition

Then they went to console David with food while it was still day. But David swore, “May God do thus to me, and more, if before the sun goes down I eat bread or anything else.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him to get him to rise from the ground; but he would not, nor would he take food with them.

2 Samuel 1:12

They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

Jeremiah 16:7

They will not break bread with the bereaved to offer consolation for the dead; they will not give them the cup of consolation to drink over the death of father or mother.

Ruth 1:17

Where you die I will die, and there be buried. May the Lord do thus to me, and more, if even death separates me from you!”

Ezekiel 24:17

Groan, moan for the dead, but make no public lament; bind on your turban, put your sandals on your feet, but do not cover your beard or eat the bread of mourners.

Judges 20:26

So the entire Israelite army went up and entered Bethel, where they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and communion offerings before the Lord.

Ezekiel 24:22

Then you shall do as I have done, not covering your beards nor eating the bread of mourning.

2 Samuel 3:9

May God do thus to Abner, and more, if I do not carry out for David what the Lord swore to him—

1 Samuel 3:17

Then Eli asked, “What did he say to you? Hide nothing from me! May God do thus to you, and more, if you hide from me a single thing he told you.”

2 Samuel 3:34

Your hands were not bound with chains, nor your feet placed in fetters; As one falls before the wicked, you fell. And all the people continued to weep for him.

2 Samuel 3:36

All the people noted this with approval, just as everything the king did met with their approval.

Judges 20:23

Then the Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. “Shall I again engage my brother Benjamin in battle?” they asked the Lord; and the Lord answered: Attack!

1 Chronicles 10:12

all their warriors set out, recovered the corpses of Saul and his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak of Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.