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Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house - because you have shown contempt for me and taken the wife of Uriyah the Hitti as your own wife.'
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Here is what ADONAI says: 'I will generate evil against you out of your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to your neighbor; he will go to bed with your wives, and everyone will know about it.
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For you did it secretly, but I will do this before all Isra'el in broad daylight.'"
13
David said to Natan, "I have sinned against ADONAI." Natan said to David, "ADONAI also has taken away your sin. You will not die.
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However, because by this act you have so greatly blasphemed ADONAI, the child born to you must die."
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Then Natan returned to his house. ADONAI struck the child that Uriyah's wife had borne to David, and it became very ill.
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David prayed to God on behalf of the child; David fasted, then came and lay all night on the ground.
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The court officials got up and stood next to him trying to get him off the ground, but he refused, and he wouldn't eat food with them.
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On the seventh day, the child died. The servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, because they said, "While the child was still alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to us; if we tell him now that the child is dead, he may do himself some harm."
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But when David saw his servants whispering to each other, he suspected that the child was dead. David asked his servants, "Is the child dead?" and they answered, "He is dead."
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Then David got up off the ground, washed, anointed himself and changed his clothes. He went into the house of ADONAI and worshipped; then he went to his own palace; and when he asked for food, they served it to him; and he ate.