David answered, "While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, 'Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.' Cross References 2 Samuel 12:21 "What is this you have done?" his servants asked. "While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate." 2 Kings 20:3 "Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Isaiah 38:1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'" Jonah 1:6 The captain approached him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish." Jonah 3:9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish." Treasury of Scripture And he said, 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? I fasted Isaiah 38:1-3,5 Joel 1:14 Joel 2:14 |