2 Samuel 12:7-12

12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose ¹  you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul. 12:8 I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. ²  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! 12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ³  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ⁴  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 ⁵  from inside your own household! ⁶  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ⁷  He will have sexual relations with ⁸  your wives in broad daylight! ⁹  12:12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’” ¹⁰ 

[12:7]  ¹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[12:8]  ² 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.

[12:9]  ³ tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

[12:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[12:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and before the sun.”