For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 12:12 in context
2 Samuel 12:9–15
9
Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10
Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife 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
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For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
13
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan 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 will surely die.”
15
Then Nathan departed to his house.
The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he was very sick.
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