2 Samuel 12:22

La Bible David Martin

Et il dit : Quand l'enfant était encore en vie, j'ai jeûné, et pleuré; car je disais : Qui sait si l'Eternel aura pitié de moi, et si l'enfant ne vivra point?

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Mais il dit: Quand l'enfant était encore en vie, j'ai jeûné et j'ai pleuré; car je disais: Qui sait si l'Éternel n'aura point pitié de moi, et si l'enfant ne vivra point?

Darby's French Translation
Et il dit: Tant que l'enfant vivait encore, j'ai jeûné et j'ai pleuré; car je disais: Qui sait: l'Éternel me fera grâce, et l'enfant vivra?

Louis Segond (1910)
Il répondit: Lorsque l'enfant vivait encore, je jeûnais et je pleurais, car je disais: Qui sait si l'Eternel n'aura pas pitié de moi et si l'enfant ne vivra pas?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I fasted: Isaiah 38:1-3, Isaiah 38:5, Joel 1:14, Joel 2:14, Amos 5:15, Jonah 1:6, Jonah 3:9, Jonah 3:10, James 4:9, James 4:10

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 12:16 - besought 2 Kings 20:3 - wept sore Isaiah 38:3 - wept Zephaniah 2:3 - it may

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, while the child was yet alive,.... And so there was hope it might be continued:

I fasted and wept; or sought the Lord by prayer, and fasting, and weeping, that the threatening might not take place, that the child's life might be spared:

for I said; within himself, thus he reasoned in his own mind:

who can tell [whether] God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? and in hope of this he kept praying, fasting, and weeping; he could not tell but God might repent of the evil he had threatened, as in some cases he has done; see Joel 2:13. Abarbinel thinks that David fasted and wept to hide this matter from his wife, and his servants, and did not let them know that this was in his punishment, that the child should die.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 12:22. Who can tell — David, and indeed all others under the Mosaic dispensation, were so satisfied that all God's threatenings and promises were conditional, that even in the most positive assertions relative to judgments, &c., they sought for a change of purpose. And notwithstanding the positive declaration of Nathan, relative to the death of the child, David sought for its life, not knowing but that might depend on some unexpressed condition, such as earnest prayer, fasting, humiliation, &c., and in these he continued while there was hope. When the child died, he ceased to grieve, as he now saw that this must be fruitless. This appears to be the sole reason of David's importunity.