21 "Why are you acting this way?" his servants asked. "When the child was alive, you fasted and cried and kept watch, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat food!"
22 David replied, "While the child was alive I fasted and wept because I thought, Who knows? The Lord may have mercy on me and let the child live.
23 But he is dead now. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? No. I am going where he is, but he won’t come back to me."
24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had sex with her. She gave birth to a son and named him Solomon. The Lord loved him
25 and sent word by the prophet Nathan to name him Jedidiah because of the Lord’s grace.
26 Meanwhile, Joab fought the Ammonites at Rabbah and captured the royal city.
27 Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, "I have fought against Rabbah and captured the city’s water supply.