^12:7Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose¹⁵ you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul. ^12:8I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms.¹⁶ I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well! ^12:9Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my¹⁷ sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own!¹⁸ You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. ^12:10So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ ^12:11This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you¹⁹ from inside your own household!²⁰ Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion.²¹ He will have sexual relations with²² your wives in broad daylight!²³^12:12Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’ ”²⁴

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Footnotes

15 Heb “anointed.”
16 Heb “and the wives of your lord into your chest [or “lap”].” The words “I put” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.
17 So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”
18 Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.
19 Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
20 Heb “house” (so , ); , , “family.”
21 Or “friend.”
22 Heb “will lie with” (so , ); “will have intercourse with”; , “will go to bed with.”
23 Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
24 Heb “and before the sun.”