2 Samuel 12:17
The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
2 Samuel 3:35
Then they came to urge David to eat bread while it was still day, but David took an oath: “May God punish me and do so severely if I taste bread or anything else before sunset!”
1 Samuel 28:23
He refused, saying, “I won’t eat,” but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them.
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And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
The elders
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The elders
2 Samuel 3:35
Then they came to urge David to eat bread while it was still day, but David took an oath: “May God punish me and do so severely if I taste bread or anything else before sunset!”
1 Samuel 28:23
He refused, saying, “I won’t eat,” but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed.