2 Samuel
2 Samuel 12:10–23
10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
11This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight. 12You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
“The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die. 14Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD,b the son born to you will surely die.”
15After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackclothc on the ground. 17The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
18On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
19When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?”
“He is dead,” they replied.
20Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
21“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
22David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’ 23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
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2 Samuel 12:10 2 Samuel 18:14–15
2 Samuel 12:11 2 Samuel 16:21–22 · Deuteronomy 28:30 · 2 Samuel 15:6 · 2 Samuel 13:1–14 · 2 Samuel 15:10 · 2 Samuel 13:28–29 · Ezekiel 20:25–26 · Hosea 4:13–14 · Ezekiel 14:9
2 Samuel 12:12 Luke 12:1–2 · 1 Corinthians 4:5 · Ecclesiastes 12:14 · 2 Samuel 16:22 · 2 Samuel 11:4–15
2 Samuel 12:13 Proverbs 28:13 · 2 Samuel 24:10 · Zechariah 3:4 · Psalm 51:4 · Psalm 32:1–5 · Luke 15:21 · Micah 7:18–19 · 1 Samuel 15:30 · Revelation 1:5 · Leviticus 20:10 · Romans 8:33–34 · Hebrews 9:26
2 Samuel 12:14 Romans 2:24 · Isaiah 52:5 · Psalm 89:31–33 · Proverbs 3:11–12 · Ezekiel 36:20–23 · Hebrews 12:6 · Revelation 3:19 · Psalm 94:12
2 Samuel 12:15 1 Samuel 25:38 · Psalm 104:29
2 Samuel 12:16 2 Samuel 13:31 · Isaiah 22:12 · Psalm 69:10 · Psalm 50:15 · Jonah 3:9 · 2 Samuel 12:22 · 1 Kings 21:27 · Esther 4:16 · Acts 9:9 · Job 20:12–14 · Isaiah 26:16
2 Samuel 12:17 2 Samuel 3:35 · 1 Samuel 28:23
2 Samuel 12:20 Job 1:20 · Ruth 3:3 · Lamentations 3:39–41 · 2 Samuel 7:18 · Matthew 6:17 · Job 2:10 · Ecclesiastes 9:8
2 Samuel 12:22 Isaiah 38:1–3 · Isaiah 38:5 · Jonah 3:9–10 · Joel 1:14 · Jonah 1:6 · Joel 2:14
2 Samuel 12:23 Genesis 37:35 · Job 30:23
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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.