17The 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.


In Context

14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die.|

15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

17 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.

18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, |Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?|

19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, |Is the child dead?| They said, |He is dead.|

2 Samuel 12:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:17The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:17And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:17And 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.