ECB(i)
16 and David beseeches Elohim for the lad; and David fasts a fast; and goes in and stays overnight on the earth.
17 And the elders of his house rise to him, to raise him off the earth: but he neither wills nor chews bread with them.
18 And so be it, on the seventh day, the child dies: and the servants of David awe to tell him the child died: for they say, Behold, while the child is yet alive, we worded to him and he hearkened not to our voice: how then works he himself evil if we say to him the child died?
19 And David sees his servants enchant, and David discerns that the child died: and David says to his servants, Has the child died? And they say, Died.
20 And David rises from the earth and baptizes and anoints and passes his clothes; and comes into the house of Yah Veh and prostrates: and comes to his house; and he asks: and they set bread in front of him; and he eats.