2 Samuel 12:7-12 ▼

7 But Nathan replied to David, |You are the man! This is what the LORD God of Israel says: |'I anointed you king—and you became king over Israel. |'I delivered you from Saul's control.

8 |'I gave you your former master's household. |'I placed your former master's wives right in your arms. |'I gave you Israel and Judah. |'And if this had been too little, I would have added much more than that to you!

9 |'Why did you despise what the LORD has promised by doing what is detestable in his sight? |'You struck down Uriah the Hittite with a battle sword. |'You took his wife to be your own. |'You killed him with the sword of the Ammonite army.

10 |'Therefore the sword will never leave your household, because you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

11 |This is what the LORD says: |'Listen very carefully! |'I'm raising up evil against you right out of your own household. |'I'm going to take your wives away from you right before your eyes. |'Then I'll give them to your neighbor. |'And then he's going to have sex with your wives in broad daylight!

12 |'What you did in secret I'm going to do right in front of all Israel and in broad daylight as well!'|