2 Samuel 12:18

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

18 Yedinci gün çocuk öldü. Davutun görevlileri çocuğun öldüğünü Davuta bildirmekten çekindiler. Çünkü, ‹‹Çocuk daha yaşarken onunla konuştuk ama bizi dinlemedi›› diyorlardı, ‹‹Şimdi çocuğun öldüğünü ona nasıl söyleriz? Kendisine zarar verebilir!››

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seventh day: vex, Heb. do hurt to, 2 Samuel 12:18, Numbers 20:15

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died,.... Not the seventh day from its being taken ill, but from its birth; for it cannot be thought that David should fast seven days:

and the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; lest he should be overwhelmed with too much sorrow:

for they said, behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him; to rise from the ground, and eat food:

and he would not hearken unto our voice; we could not prevail upon him to do the one nor the other:

how will he then vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead? or should we acquaint him with it, "he will do mischief" w to himself, to his body; he will tear his flesh to pieces, and cut and kill himself; this they were afraid of, observing the distress and agony he was in while it was living, and therefore they concluded these would increase upon hearing of its death.

w ועשה רעה και ποιησει κακα, Sept. "faciat malum", Pagninus, Montanus; "malum [sibi] inferet", Syr. Ar.