15After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have in sackcloth. on the ground.
17The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
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