Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Samuel 12:23
I shall go: Genesis 37:35, Job 30:23, Luke 23:43 he shall not: Job 7:8-2 Samuel : Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:39 - comforted Job 7:9 - he Job 10:21 - I go whence read more
2 Samuel 12:23 Niv
Samuel Bagster
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Samuel 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.I fast — Seeing fasting and prayer cannot now prevail with God for his life.I shall go to him — Into the state of the dead in which he is, and into heaven, where I doubt not I shall find him. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:15-23
DEATH OF THE CHILD OF DAVID AND BATHSHEBA, 2 Samuel 12:15-23. There is no section of Old Testament history more graphically and touchingly worded than this. Every verse presents a vivid picture. We seem to see the infant child wracked with pain and struck with death. (15.) The conscience-smitten king flies to his chamber, and spends seven days and nights in fasting and in tears, much of the time prostrate upon the floor, and pouring out his groanings all night to God, (16;) his most... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:23
23. I shall go to him So as to rejoin him in a state of conscious existence in another world. Nothing short of this idea can well satisfy the profound faith and hope of the forgiven king. He was evidently comforted by the thought here expressed; but what comfort could it be if the place of reunion with the lost child were but the grave the cold, dark charnel house of corruption, earth, and worms! How many are comforted by this same faith that their beloved dead “are not lost, but gone... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:23
2Sa 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. Ver. 23. I shall go to him, ] viz, With my body I shall go to him into the grave, with my soul into heaven. For in answer to his prayers for the child’s life, David had a secret consideration dropped into his soul, that the child was saved. read more