2 Samuel 12:14-19

14But since you have shown total contempt for the Lord by this affair, the son that is born to you must die.”

15Then Nathan went home. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had given birth to for David so that the child became sick.

16David pleaded with God for the child; he fasted and lay on the ground all night.

17The older leaders in his palace stood beside him to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling. And he wouldn’t eat with them.

18On the seventh day the child died. But David’s officials were afraid to tell him that the child was dead. They thought, “While the child was alive, we talked to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may harm ⌞himself⌟.”

19But when David saw that his officials were whispering to one another, he realized that the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” David asked them. “⌞Yes,⌟ he is dead,” they answered.