⁷Nathan replied to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel,^f and I rescued you from Saul. ⁸I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms,^A and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more. ⁹Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider^B evil?^g You struck down Uriah^h the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.ⁱ ¹⁰Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house^j because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.’

¹¹“This is what the Lord says,^k ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another^C before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them in broad daylight.^D ¹²You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’ ”^E

¹³David responded to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”^l

Then Nathan replied to David, “And the Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.^m ¹⁴However, because you treated^F the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”ⁿ

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Footnotes

A bosom
B tradition reads what he considers
COr to your neighbor
D in the eyes of this sun
E and before the sun
F tradition, one ; reads treated the enemies of; read treated the word of

Cross references

f 1Sm 16:13
g Nm 15:30–31; 1Sm 15:19
h Mt 1:6
i 2Sm 11:14–17
j 2Sm 12:18; 13:28–29; 18:14–18; 1Kg 2:22–25; 2Kg 11:1
k 2Sm 16:21–22
l 2Sm 24:10; Ps 32:5; 51:4
m Lv 20:10; 24:17; Ps 32:1–5; Pr 28:13
n 2Sm 12:18