Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider[a] evil?(A) You struck down Uriah(B) the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.(C) 10 Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house(D) because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.’

11 “This is what the Lord says,(E) ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another[b] before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them in broad daylight.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:9 Alt Hb tradition reads what he considers
  2. 12:11 Or to your neighbor
  3. 12:11 Lit in the eyes of this sun

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