 | 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 - 466 pages
...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 - 1249 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 - 293 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... 
