2 Samuel 12:12
◄  2 Samuel 12:12  ►
New International Version (©2011)
You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
You did it secretly, but I will make this happen to you openly in the sight of all Israel."

English Standard Version (©2001)
For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
"'What you did in secret I'm going to do right in front of all Israel and in broad daylight as well!'"

NET Bible (©2006)
Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You did this secretly, but I will make this happen in broad daylight in front of all Israel."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

American King James Version
For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

American Standard Version
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou didst it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

English Revised Version
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

World English Bible
For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"

Young's Literal Translation
for thou hast done it in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:1-14 God will not suffer his people to lie still in sin. By this parable Nathan drew from David a sentence against himself. Great need there is of prudence in giving reproofs. In his application, he was faithful. He says in plain terms, Thou art the man. God shows how much he hates sin, even in his own people; and wherever he finds it, he will not let it go unpunished. David says not a word to excuse himself or make light of his sin, but freely owns it. When David said, I have sinned, and Nathan perceived that he was a true penitent, he assured him his sin was forgiven. Thou shalt not die: that is, not die eternally, nor be for ever put away from God, as thou wouldest have been, if thou hadst not put away the sin. Though thou shalt all thy days be chastened of the Lord, yet thou shalt not be condemned with the world. There is this great evil in the sins of those who profess religion and relation to God, that they furnish the enemies of God and religion with matter for reproach and blasphemy. And it appears from David's case, that even where pardon is obtained, the Lord will visit the transgression of his people with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. For one momentary gratification of a vile lust, David had to endure many days and years of extreme distress.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thou didst it secretly,.... Committed adultery with Bathsheba privately, and endeavoured to conceal it, by getting her husband killed in battle, and then marrying her as soon as he could to hide the shame of it:

but one will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun; as the above fact was; that is, he would suffer it to he done, and so order it in his providence, that everything should concur to the doing of it; as David's leaving his wives behind him, Ahithophel's wicked counsel he was suffered to give, and the lustful inclination Absalom was left unto, and not any of the people of Israel having religion, spirit, and courage enough to remonstrate against it.

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Nathan Rebukes David
…10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 11Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

2 Samuel 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.
2 Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.