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.

16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

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16 David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and (A)lay all night on the ground.

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24 My knees give(A) way from fasting;(B)
    my body is thin and gaunt.(C)

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24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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24 My (A)knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

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