21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”

22 And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; ^afor I said, ‘Who can tell whether¹ the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’  ‡

24 Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So ^ashe bore a son, and ^bhe called his name Solomon. Now the Lord loved him,  ‡

25 and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So¹ he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.  ‡