SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:16
Entonces rogó David a Dios por el niño; y ayunó David, y vino, y pasó la noche acostado en tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:16
Verse 16. David-besought God for the child] How could he do so, after the solemn assurance that he had from God that the child should die? The justice of God absolutely required that the penalty of the law should be exacted; either the father or the son shall die. This could not be reversed.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. David therefore besought God for the child , etc.] Perhaps went into the tabernacle he had built for the ark, and prayed to the Lord to restore the child, and spare its life; for though the Lord had said it should die, he might hope that that was a conditional threatening, and that the Lord might be gracious and reverse it, ( 2 Samuel 12:22); and David fasted : all that day: and went in ; to his own house from the house of God: and lay all night upon the earth ; would neither go into, nor lie upon a bed, but lay on the floor all night, weeping and praying for the child’s life, and especially for its eternal welfare: he having through sin been the means of its coming into a sinful and afflicted state.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-25 - David now penned the 51st Psalm, in which, though he had been assure that his sin was pardoned, he prays earnestly for pardon, and greatl laments his sin. He was willing to bear the shame of it, to have it ever before him, to be continually upbraided with it. God gives u leave to be earnest with him in prayer for particular blessings, from trust in his power and general mercy, though we have no particula promise to build upon. David patiently submitted to the will of God in the death of one child, and God made up the loss to his advantage, in the birth of another. The way to have creature comforts continued of restored, or the loss made up some other way, is cheerfully to resig them to God. God, by his grace, particularly owned and favoured tha son, and ordered him to be called Jedidiah, Beloved of the Lord. Ou prayers for our children are graciously and as fully answered when some of them die in their infancy, for they are well taken care of, and when others live, "beloved of the Lord."
Original Hebrew
ויבקשׁ 1245 דוד 1732 את 853 האלהים 430 בעד 1157 הנער 5288 ויצם 6684 דוד 1732 צום 6685 ובא 935 ולן 3885 ושׁכב 7901 ארצה׃ 776
