Holy Scripture
2 Samuel 12:15
A church father on this verse
“How particularly difficult it is to atone for the evil deed of handing over the name of the Lord to the blasphemy of the heathen, we are instructed by the example of the most blessed David who, because of the intercession of his acts of justice, deserved to evade eternal punishment for his offenses through one confess…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15And Nathan departed to his house. And the Lord smote the child, which the wife of Uriah the Hittite bore to David, and it was ill.
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In context
13And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, And the Lord has put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14Only because thou hast given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, thy son also that is born to thee shall surely die.
— 2 Samuel 12:15 —
16And David inquired of God concerning the child, and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.
17And the elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not rise, nor did he eat bread with them.