 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...  Select British divines, ed. by C. Bradley - Page 462publié par - 1822Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | British preacher - 1832 - 342 pages
...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 to me," 2 Sam. xii. 22, 23. The consolation of David on the death of his child was... | |
 | Village pastor - 1832 - 226 pages
...Lord may be gracious unto me, that the child should live ? But now that he is dead, wherefore should 1 fast ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." Believer, has the one nearest and dearest to your heart been consigned to... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1833 - 252 pages
...and ate bread, and said to his astonished servants, who were no doubt surprised at his behaviour, " but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast : —...bring him back again ? — I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me," see 2d Samuel, l?th chapter, from the 20th to the 24th verses. Dear Grandfather,... | |
 | Chauncey Lee - 1833 - 238 pages
...was yet alive, I fasted and wept, for I said who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious unto me? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again ?" David though assured that the child would die, yet was not assured that it would die, of that particular... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1833 - 350 pages
...who \vere no doubt surprised at his behaviour, " but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast r — can I bring him back again ? — I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me," see 2d Samuel, 12th chapter, from the 20th to the 24th verses. Dear Grandfather,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1834 - 262 pages
...words of the king of Israel, when his child was smitten, — " He is dead. Wherefore should I mourn ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." Bowing down to the man of God, he said, — "She, whom thou seekest, is not... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1834 - 492 pages
...wept ; for I said, who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live ; but now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I bring hin back again ?" The grief, that goes before an evil for remedy, can hardly be too much, but that... | |
 | Thomas Tunstall Haverfield - 1835 - 304 pages
...wept : for I said, Who can tell whether the Lord 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 to me." Here is clearly a feeling of religious consolation — his child is gone j... | |
 | Edward Greswell - 1835 - 504 pages
...alive, but rising from the ground, anointing himself, and eating bread, when he knew it was dead : " 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. xii. 23. The meaning of this declaration is now perceived to be something... | |
 | William Jenks - 1836 - 904 pages
...sent by the hand of • Nathan the prophet, and he called his name fjedidiah, because of the LORD. wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? "I shall go to him, but »he shall not return to me. 24 And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with... | |
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