2 Samuel 12:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton in this verse. App-6.

fasted. Hebrew. fasted. fast. made. strict fast. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6.

lay all night upon the earth: as. penitent, with Psalms 51 for his utterance. Note his sitting before Jehovah as. worshipper, and his utterance (2 Samuel 7:18-29); and his standing as. servant (1 Chronicles 28:2), and his utterance and service (1 Chronicles 28:3. 2Sa 29:21).

2 Samuel 12:16

16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted,b and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.