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18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your
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concerning the war, and charged the messen- master’s house and your master’s wives into
ger, saying, “When you have finished telling your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel
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the matters of the war to the king, if it happens and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also
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that the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: would have given you much more! Why have
‘Why did you approach so near to the city when you despised the commandment of the LORD,
you fought? Did you not know that they would to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah
shoot from the wall? Who struck Abimelech the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his
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the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman wife to be your wife, and have killed him with
who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the sword of the people of Ammon. Now
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the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did therefore, the sword shall never depart from
you go near the wall?’—then you shall say, your house, because you have despised Me,
‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’” and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to
22 So the messenger went, and came and told be your wife.’ Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I
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David all that Joab had sent by him. And the will raise up adversity against you from your
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messenger said to David, “Surely the men pre- own house; and I will take your wives before
vailed against us and came out to us in the your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and
field; then we drove them back as far as the he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this
entrance of the gate. The archers shot from sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this
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the wall at your servants; and some of the thing before all Israel, before the sun.’ ”
king’s servants are dead, and your servant 13 So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned
Uriah the Hittite is dead also.” against the LORD.”
25 Then David said to the messenger, “Thus And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has
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you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing dis- put away your sin; you shall not die. However,
please you, for the sword devours one as well because by this deed you have given great occa-
as another. Strengthen your attack against the sion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme,
city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him.” the child also who is born to you shall surely
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26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her die.” Then Nathan departed to his house.
husband was dead, she mourned for her hus- And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s
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band. And when her mourning was over, Da- wife bore to David, and it became ill. David
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vid sent and brought her to his house, and she therefore pleaded with God for the child, and
became his wife and bore him a son. But the David fasted and went in and lay all night on
thing that David had done displeased the LORD. the ground. So the elders of his house arose
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Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. and went to him, to raise him up from the
12 And he came to him, and said to him: ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food
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“There were two men in one city, one rich and with them. Then on the seventh day it came
the other poor. The rich man had exceeding- to pass that the child died. And the servants of
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ly many flocks and herds. But the poor man David were afraid to tell him that the child was
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had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which dead. For they said, “Indeed, while the child
he had bought and nourished; and it grew up was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not
together with him and with his children. It ate heed our voice. How can we tell him that the
of his own food and drank from his own cup child is dead? He may do some harm!”
and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daugh- 19 When David saw that his servants were
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ter to him. And a traveler came to the rich whispering, David perceived that the child
man, who refused to take from his own flock was dead. Therefore David said to his ser-
and from his own herd to prepare one for the vants, “Is the child dead?”
wayfaring man who had come to him; but he And they said, “He is dead.”
took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for 20 So David arose from the ground, washed
the man who had come to him.” and anointed himself, and changed his clothes;
5 So David’s anger was greatly aroused and he went into the house of the LORD and
against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As worshiped. Then he went to his own house;
the LORD lives, the man who has done this and when he requested, they set food before
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shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold him, and he ate. Then his servants said to
for the lamb, because he did this thing and him, “What is this that you have done? You fast-
because he had no pity.” ed and wept for the child while he was alive, but
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I 22 And he said, “While the child was alive, I
anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell
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