The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
SA2 12:22 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?
SA2 12:23 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.
SA2 12:24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her,
and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon:
and the LORD loved him.
SA2 12:25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called
his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
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