Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

Bible References

Cause

2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house rose up toward him, to raise him up from the earth. But he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
Jeremiah 16:7
Nor shall anyone tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Nor shall anyone give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or for their mother.
Ezekiel 24:17
Groan but be silent; make no mourning for the dead; tie your turban on you, and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

So do

2 Samuel 3:9
So may God do to Abner, and more also, if I do not do to David as Jehovah has sworn,
Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.

Till the

2 Samuel 1:12
And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for his son Jonathan, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Judges 20:26
And all the sons of Israel, and all the people, went up and came into the house of God, and wept, and sat there before Jehovah and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Jehovah.