2 Samuel 12:16
prayed <01245> [besought.]
fasted <06684> [fasted. Heb. fasted a fast.]
spend .... lying <03885 07901> [lay all night.]
2 Samuel 12:11
bring <06965> [I will raise.]
take <03947> [I will take.]
That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.
