2 Samuel 12:12

12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Yisra'el, and before the sun.'"

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 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriyah the Hittite to be your wife.'

11 This is what the LORD says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Yisra'el, and before the sun.'"

13 David said to Natan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Natan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die.

14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."