12:21 His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While ¹  the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!” 12:22 He replied, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ²  ‘Perhaps ³  the Lord will show pity and the child will live. 12:23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”

12:24 So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had marital relations with her. ⁴  She gave birth to a son, and David ⁵  named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved the child ⁶  12:25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah ⁷  for the Lord’s sake.

12:29 So David assembled all the army and went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it. 12:30 He took the crown of their king ¹¹  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ¹²  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder. 12:31 He removed ¹³  the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy ¹⁴  with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁵