And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
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Interpretation
David now penned the 51st Psalm, in which, though he had been assured that his sin was pardoned, he prays earnestly for pardon, and greatly laments his sin. He was willing to bear the shame of it, to have it ever before him, to be continually upbraided with it.
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This thought runs through 2 Samuel 12:16-20.