16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying(A) in sackcloth[a] on the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have in sackcloth.

31 The king stood up, tore(A) his clothes and lay down on the ground; and all his attendants stood by with their clothes torn.

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