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2 Samuel 12:7-12  New English Translation

7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘I chose[a] you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms.[b] 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! 9 Why have you shown contempt for the Lord’s decrees[c] by doing evil in my[d] sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 So 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!’ 11 This is what the Lord has said: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you[e] from inside your own household![f] Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion.[g] He will go to bed with[h] your wives in broad daylight![i] 12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’”[j]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:7 tn Heb “anointed.”
  2. 2 Samuel 12:8 tn 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.
  3. 2 Samuel 12:9 tn Or “word, message.” The “word of the Lord” sometimes refers to a prophetic message from God and sometimes to his past revelation. Here it refers to the Lord’s laws which David has violated.
  4. 2 Samuel 12:9 tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”
  5. 2 Samuel 12:11 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
  6. 2 Samuel 12:11 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”
  7. 2 Samuel 12:11 tn Or “friend.”
  8. 2 Samuel 12:11 tn Heb “will lie down with.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakhav) “to lie down” can be a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.
  9. 2 Samuel 12:11 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
  10. 2 Samuel 12:12 tn Heb “and before the sun.”
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