Sāmǔĕrjìxià 12:14

14 Zhǐshì nǐ xíng zhè shì , jiào Yēhéhuá de chóudí dà dé xièdú de jīhuì , gùcǐ , nǐ suǒ dé de háizi bìdéng yào sǐ .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 12:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:14

Howbeit, because by this deed
This complicated wickedness, adultery with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband, and occasioning the death of others:

thou hast given great reason to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme;
to insult over Israel, and the God of Israel, and to magnify their own idols on account of the advantage they got when Uriah and other Israelites were slain; and to speak ill of God as a respecter of persons, who had cast off Saul and his family from the kingdom, and yet established David in it, guilty of crimes the other was not; and of the word, ways, and worship of God, and of the true religion, as all hypocrisy and deceit, when men that made such pretensions to it were guilty of such atrocious crimes; wherefore to let such see and know that the Lord did not approve of and countenance such actions, but abhorred and resented them:

the child also [that is] born unto thee shall surely die;
which would be a visible testimony of God's displeasure at his sin, to all men that should hear of it, and know it; and being taken away in such a manner would be a great affliction to him, and the more as his affections were much towards the child, as appears by what follows; or otherwise the removal of it might have been considered as a mercy, since its life would have kept up the remembrance of the sin, and have been a standing reproach to him.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 12:14 In-Context

12 Nǐ zaì ànzhōng xíng zhè shì , wǒ què yào zaì Yǐsèliè zhòngrén miànqián , rì guāng zhī xià , bàoyìng nǐ .
13 Dàwèi duì Nádān shuō , wǒ dé zuì Yēhéhuá le . Nádān shuō , Yēhéhuá yǐjing chúdiào nǐde zuì , nǐ bì búzhìyú sǐ .
14 Zhǐshì nǐ xíng zhè shì , jiào Yēhéhuá de chóudí dà dé xièdú de jīhuì , gùcǐ , nǐ suǒ dé de háizi bìdéng yào sǐ .
15 Ná dān jiù huí jiā qù le . Yēhéhuá jī dá Wūlìyà qī/4 gĕi Dàwèi suǒ shēng de háizi , shǐ tā dé zhòng bìng .
16 Suǒyǐ Dàwèi wèi zhè háizi kĕnqiú shén , érqiĕ jìnshí , jìnrù neì shì , zhōng yè tǎng zaì dì shàng .
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