22 He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?
23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.
26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
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