⁷Then Nathan said to him, “You are the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. ⁸I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if that had been too little, I would have added to you much more.^e ⁹Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes?^f Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites!^g ¹⁰So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!’ ¹¹Thus says Yahweh, ‘Look, I am going to raise up evil against you from within your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives in broad daylight.^h ¹²Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel in broad daylight!’ ”ⁱ

David Repents, But the Child Dies

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

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Footnotes

eLiterally “as here and as here”
fThus Kethib; the reading tradition (Qere) reads “my eyes”
gLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”
hLiterally “before the eyes of this sun”
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)