2 Samuel 12:13-18

13David responded to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Then Nathan replied to David, “And the Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.

14However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”

15Then Nathan went home. The Lord struck the baby that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became deathly ill.

16David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.

17The 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.

18On the seventh day the baby died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him the baby was dead. They said, “Look, while the baby was alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. So how can we tell him the baby is dead? He may do something desperate.”