2 Samuel 12:9-13
12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the
Lord by doing evil in my
1 sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own!
2 You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
12:10 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!’
12:11 This is what the
Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you
3 from inside your own household!
4 Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion.
5 He will have sexual relations with
6 your wives in broad daylight!
7
12:12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’”
8
12:13 Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven 9 your sin. You are not going to die.
1 tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”
2 tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.
3 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
4 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”
5 tn Or “friend.”
6 tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”
7 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
5 tn Heb “and before the sun.”
7 tn Heb “removed.”