THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 3:35Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.
וַיָּבֹ֣א כָל־הָעָ֗ם לְהַבְר֧וֹת אֶת־דָּוִ֛ד לֶ֖חֶם בְּע֣וֹד הַיּ֑וֹם וַיִּשָּׁבַ֨ע דָּוִ֜ד לֵאמֹ֗ר כֹּ֣ה יַעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֤י אֱלֹהִים֙ וְכֹ֣ה יֹסִ֔יף כִּ֣י אִם־לִפְנֵ֧י בֽוֹא־הַשֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ אֶטְעַם־לֶ֖חֶם א֥וֹ כָל־מְאֽוּמָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Sam 12:17And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.
- 2 Sam 1:12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
- Jer 16:7And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them for their father and mother.
- Ruth 1:17The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.
- Judg 20:26Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God, and sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,
- Ezek 24:17Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners.
- Ezek 24:22And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.
- 2 Sam 3:9So do God to Abner, and more also, unless as the Lord hath sworn to David, so I do to him,