2 Samuel 12:16

New English Translation

Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:15

Then Nathan went to his home. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.

2 Samuel 12:22

He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ‘Perhaps the Lord will show pity and the child will live.

2 Samuel 13:31

Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Esther 4:16

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”

Psalm 50:15

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”

Psalm 69:10

I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

Isaiah 22:12

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

Isaiah 26:16

O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king departed to his palace. But he spent the night without eating, and no diversions were brought to him. He was unable to sleep.

Daniel 9:3

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

Acts 9:9

For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.

Joshua 7:6

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt on their heads.