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2 Samuel 12:5

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12:5 Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 1 

2 Samuel 12:10-11

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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 2  from inside your own household! 3  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. 4  He will have sexual relations with 5  your wives in broad daylight! 6 
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[12:5]  1 tn Heb “the man doing this [is] a son of death.” See 1 Sam 20:31 for another use of this expression, which must mean “he is as good as dead” or “he deserves to die,” as 1 Sam 20:32 makes clear.

[12:11]  2 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  3 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  4 tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  5 tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  6 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”



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