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2 Samuel 12 📜 📕 ↷
Nathan Rebukes David
1 OUR Lord therefore sent Nathan to David: Who when he was come to him, he said unto him: There were two men in one city, one rich, and the other poor.📜💬📚
2 The rich man had sheep, and oxen exceeding many.📜💬📚
3 But the poor man had nothing at all, beside one little ewe, which he had bought and nourished, and which had grown in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, & sleeping in his bosom: & it was to him as a daughter.📜💬📚
4 And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he sparing to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, which was come to him, took the poor man's ewe, & made meats thereof for the man that was come to him.📜💬📚
5 And David being exceedingly wrath with indignation against that man, said to Nathan: Our Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is the child of death.📜💬📚
6 He shall render the ewe fourfold, because he hath done this thing, & hath not spared.📜💬📚
7 And Nathan said to David: Thou art that man. Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: I anointed thee to be king over Israel, & I delivered thee from the hand of Saul,📜💬📚
8 and gave thee the house of thy lord, & the wives of thy lord in thy bosom, and have given thee the house of Israel and Juda: & if these things be little, I will add far greater things unto thee.📜💬📚
9 Why therefore hast thou contemned the word of the Lord, that thou wouldest do evil in my sight? Urias the Hetheite thou hast smitten with the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.📜💬📚
10 For which thing the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hetheite, to be thy wife.📜💬📚
11 Therefore thus saith our Lord: Behold, I will raise upon thee evil out of thine own house, and will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall sleep with thy wives in the sight of this sun.📜💬📚
12 For thou hast done it secretly: but I will do this word in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.📜💬📚
David's Loss and Repentance
13 And David said to Nathan: I have sinned to our Lord. And Nathan said to David: Our Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.📜💬📚
14 Nevertheless, because thou hast made the enemies of our Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the son that is born to thee dying shall die.📜💬📚
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