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David Uses a Jewish Idiom to Describe the Finality of Death

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As we're continuing to ask the question, it was emailed in to us at info at strivingforeternity .org. Do children go to heaven? We've been looking at the key passage that many turn to, which is 2 Samuel chapter 12 and verse 22.

And we see here in verse 22 and 23 that David promises that he will go to his child, but his child will not go to him. This is one that many people say that David will see his child in heaven. However, this is also a Jewish idiom, and we must understand the meaning of the idiom in the context.

This is an idiom to say that the child has died, and that the child will not come back to life. So, as we saw yesterday, that it is possible that David had special revelation, just as he did with the death of this child, that he would see the child again.

However, we can't exclude the fact that this is an idiom used to refer to the death of a person. That the person is dead, and we cannot bring the person back to us, we would go to them. So when he says, I shall go to him, but he will not return to me, it could mean, as the idiom is, that he will turn to death, but death will not come back to life.

This is a comment of saying a finality of the death of his child, when his servants are asking him why he would worship God at the time that he finds out the child is dead. He's saying that the child's death is final, and that the child will not return to life.

That's all he is saying.

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