2 Samuel 12:17
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
In context
15 After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
17 The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
18 On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
19 When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
2 Samuel 12:17 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
- KJV King James Version
- And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
- WEB World English Bible
- The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the elders of his house rise against him, to raise him up from the earth, and he hath not been willing, nor hath he eaten with them bread;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he ate no bread with them.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.