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|2 Samuel 12:11|
“This is what the LORD says: `Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
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12
|2 Samuel 12:12|
You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’“
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13
|2 Samuel 12:13|
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.
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14
|2 Samuel 12:14|
But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, [Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition this you have shown utter contempt for the LORD] the son born to you will die.”
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15
|2 Samuel 12:15|
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
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16
|2 Samuel 12:16|
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground.
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17
|2 Samuel 12:17|
The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.
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18
|2 Samuel 12:18|
On the seventh day the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, we spoke to David but he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”
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|2 Samuel 12:19|
David noticed that his servants were whispering among themselves and he realised that the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked. “Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”
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20
|2 Samuel 12:20|
Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the LORD and worshipped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.
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