SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:17
Y levantándose los ancianos de su casa fueron a él para hacerlo levantar de tierra; mas él no quiso, ni comió con ellos pan.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth , etc.] To persuade him to rise up, and sit upon a seat, and go to bed, after having taken some food; these were some of the chief officers at court, and had the management of the affairs of his household: but he would not ; they could not persuade him to it: neither did he eat bread with them ; that evening, as he had used to do; they being the princes of his court, who were wont to sit at table with him.
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
ויקמו 6965 זקני 2205 ביתו 1004 עליו 5921 להקימו 6965 מן 4480 הארץ 776 ולא 3808 אבה 14 ולא 3808 ברא 1254 אתם 854 לחם׃ 3899
