¹³Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh!”^j Nathan said to David, “Yahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die. ¹⁴But because you have utterly scorned^k Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you will certainly die.”^l ¹⁵Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill. ¹⁶David pleaded with God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground. ¹⁷The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he was not willing, and he did not eat any food with them. ¹⁸It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, when the child was alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, ‘The child is dead’? He may do something evil.”

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Footnotes

iLiterally “before the sun”
jSee Pss 32:1–5; 51:1–13
kLiterally “scorning you have scorned.” The term “enemies of” in the MT is likely a textual corruption and is deleted here
lLiterally “dying will die” (compare Gen 2:17)