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
The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
Jeremiah 16:7
neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Ezekiel 24:17
Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.

So do

2 Samuel 3:9
God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;
Ruth 1:17
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."

Till the

2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.