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2 Samuel 12:22-24
New Living Translation
2 Samuel 12:22-24
New Living Translation
22 David replied, “I fasted and wept while the child was alive, for I said, ‘Perhaps the Lord will be gracious to me and let the child live.’ 23 But why should I fast when he is dead? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him one day, but he cannot return to me.”
24 Then David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and slept with her. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and David[a] named him Solomon. The Lord loved the child
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- 12:24 Hebrew he; an alternate Hebrew reading and some Hebrew manuscripts read she.
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