SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:22
Y él respondió: Viviendo aún el niño, yo ayunaba y lloraba, diciendo: ¿Quién sabe si Dios tendrá compasión de mí, por manera que viva el niño?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:22
Verse 22. Who can tell] David, and indeed all others under the Mosaic dispensation, were so satisfied that all God's threatenings and promises were conditional, that even in the most positive assertions relative to judgments, &c., they sought for a change of purpose. And notwithstanding the positive declaration of Nathan, relative to the death of the child, David sought for its life, not knowing but that might depend on some unexpressed condition, such as earnest prayer, fasting, humiliation, &c., and in these he continued while there was hope. When the child died, he ceased to grieve, as he now saw that this must be fruitless. This appears to be the sole reason of David's importunity.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. And he said, while the child was yet alive , etc.] And so there was hope it might be continued: I fasted and wept ; or sought the Lord by prayer, and fasting, and weeping, that the threatening might not take place, that the child’s life might be spared: for I said ; within himself, thus he reasoned in his own mind: who can tell [whether] God will be gracious to me, that the child may live ? and in hope of this he kept praying, fasting, and weeping; he could not tell but God might repent of the evil he had threatened, as in some cases he has done; (see Joel 2:13,14 Jon 3:9,10). Abarbinel thinks that David fasted and wept to hide this matter from his wife, and his servants, and did not let them know that this was in his punishment, that the child should die.
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
ויאמר 559 בעוד 5750 הילד 3206 חי 2416 צמתי 6684 ואבכה 1058 כי 3588 אמרתי 559 מי 4310 יודע 3045 יחנני 2603 יהוה 3068 וחי 2416 הילד׃ 3206
