2 Samuel 12:13-18

13Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.

14Nonetheless, because you have treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”

15Then Nathan went to his home. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.

16Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

17The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

18On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, “While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”