Basic HTML Version
up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank
of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
4
And there came a traveller
unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the
wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man
that was come to him.
5
And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to
Nathan, As the L
ORD
liveth, the man that hath done this
thing
shall surely die:
6
And he shall restore
the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
7
And Nathan said to David, Thou
art
the man. Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel, I anointed
thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
8
And I gave thee thy master’s
house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and
if
that had been
too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
9
Wherefore
hast thou despised the commandment of the L
ORD
, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah
the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife
to be
thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword
of the children of Ammon.
10
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because
thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
11
Thus saith the
L
ORD
, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives
before thine eyes, and give
them
unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of
this sun.
12
For thou didst
it
secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the L
ORD
. And Nathan said unto David, The
L
ORD
also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast
given great occasion to the enemies of the L
ORD
to blaspheme, the child also
that is
born unto thee
shall surely die.
15
And Nathan departed unto his house. And the L
ORD
struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare
unto David, and it was very sick.
16
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted,
and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17
And the elders of his house arose,
and went
to him,
to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
18
And it came
to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the
child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he
would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is
dead?
19
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead:
therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20
Then David
arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
himself,
and changed his apparel, and came into
the house of the L
ORD
, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they
set bread before him, and he did eat.
21
Then said his servants unto him, What thing
is
this that thou
hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child,
while it was
alive; but when the child was dead,
thou didst rise and eat bread.
22
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for
I said, Who can tell
whether
GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
23
But now he
397
KJV Bible