2 Samuel 12:17

New International Version

The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

Cross References

Genesis 24:2

He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.

2 Samuel 12:18

On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

2 Samuel 3:35

Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

Psalm 102:4

My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

Daniel 6:18

Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.

1 Samuel 28:23

He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.