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I gave you your master's house and your master's wives to embrace. I gave you the house of Isra'el and the house of Y'hudah. And if that had been too little, I would have added to you a lot more.
9
"'So why have you shown such contempt for the word of ADONAI and done what I see as evil? You murdered Uriyah the Hitti with the sword and taken his wife as your own wife; you put him to death with the sword of the people of 'Amon.
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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.'"
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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."