Skip to content
ArticlesBibleBooksOpen the app

2 Samuel 12:14

Verse 14 of 31. The 12th of 24 chapters in 2 Samuel, in History.

10Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

11“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

12For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”

13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die.

14However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

15Then Nathan departed to his house. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he was very sick.

16David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.

17The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself if we tell him that the child is dead?”

Read 2 Samuel 12

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.