2 Samuel 12:12

12 You did what you did secretly, but I will do what I am doing before all Israel in the light of day."

2 Samuel 12:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:12

For thou didst [it] secretly
Committed adultery with Bathsheba privately, and endeavoured to conceal it, by getting her husband killed in battle, and then marrying her as soon as he could to hide the shame of it:

but one will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun;
as the above fact was; that is, he would suffer it to he done, and so order it in his providence, that everything should concur to the doing of it; as David's leaving his wives behind him, Ahithophel's wicked counsel he was suffered to give, and the lustful inclination Absalom was left unto, and not any of the people of Israel having religion, spirit, and courage enough to remonstrate against it.

2 Samuel 12:12 In-Context

10 Because of that, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own, the sword will never leave your own house.
11 "This is what the LORD says: I am making trouble come against you from inside your own family. Before your very eyes I will take your wives away and give them to your friend, and he will have sex with your wives in broad daylight.
12 You did what you did secretly, but I will do what I am doing before all Israel in the light of day."
13 "I've sinned against the LORD!" David said to Nathan. "The LORD has removed your sin," Nathan replied to David. "You won't die.
14 However, because you have utterly disrespected the LORD by doing this, the son born to you will definitely die."
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