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10 So your family will never have peace! When you took Uriah’s wife, you showed that you did not respect me.’

11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am bringing trouble against you. This trouble will come from your own family. I will take your wives from you and give them to someone who is very close to you. He will have sexual relations with your wives, and everyone will know it![a] 12 You had sexual relations with Bathsheba in secret, but I will punish you so that all the people of Israel can see it.’”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:11 and everyone will know it Literally, “in the sight of the sun.”
  2. 2 Samuel 12:12 so that all … can see it Literally, “before all Israel and before the sun.”

10 Now, therefore, the sword(A) will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household(B) I am going to bring calamity on you.(C) Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.(D) 12 You did it in secret,(E) but I will do this thing in broad daylight(F) before all Israel.’”

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