 | Stefan Heym - 1997 - 257 pages
...there, wiping the mutton grease off your lips, as though not a thing had happened? David answered, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept :...God will be gracious to me, that the child may live. But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - 1998 - 446 pages
...16. The Biblical David lost a young son, but fasted and wept only while the child was still alive: "But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me" (II Samuel 12.23). 17. From a dialogue by Seneca (c. 4 BC-AD 65), De providentia... | |
 | Yamin Levy - 1998 - 184 pages
...fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose and ate bread." And he said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who can tell? God may be gracious to me, and the child may live. But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908
...and when they asked him how it was that he seemed to have left off grieving now the child was dead, he said, 'While the child was yet alive, I fasted...God will be gracious to me, that the child may live ? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but... | |
 | Lee Roberson - 2000 - 84 pages
...thought is given unto us. For example, David had no doubt about knowing his child in Heaven. He said, "But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me" (II Sam. 12:23). The Apostle Paul also indicates that we shall know each other... | |
 | F. Leroy Forlines - 2001 - 576 pages
...of David died, in explaining to his servants why he ceased to fast after the child died, David said, "But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me" (2 Sam. 12:23). It is inferred that David and the child would meet each other... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - 2002 - 524 pages
...David's 'royal Example in the Scripture' is King David, who has to face the illness and death of his son: "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept:...God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? / But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he... | |
 | Dr. Phillip Goble - 2002 - 1248 pages
...gracious to me, that the yeled may live? | 23 | But now he is met (dead), "why should I undergo a tzom? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. | 24 | And Dovid [Beloved] comforted Bat-Sheva his isha, and went in unto her, and lay with her; and she... | |
 | Don Woodward - 2003 - 116 pages
...weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. "And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted...GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? "But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he... | |
 | Alina Patterson - 2003 - 294 pages
...not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? 22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted...GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 23But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he... | |
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While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return... 
