2 Samuel 12:11-12

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¹¹Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will stir up evil against you from your ^[a]own household; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in ^[b]broad daylight. ¹²Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and ^[c]in broad daylight.’”^(A)

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2 Samuel 12:11 This prophesy was fulfilled by David’s lawless children: Amnon’s attack on his half-sister Tamar (13:14) and his subsequent murder by his half-brother Absalom (13:28, 29); Absalom’s escape to a foreign land (13:38) and his three years in exile, followed by his estrangement from David for two more years (14:28); Absalom’s deliberate, rebellious attempt to win the hearts of the people and supplant his father (15:6); David’s flight from Jerusalem, with the mass of the people against him (15:14), the terrible battle in the forest of Ephraim, won by David’s forces, with Absalom killed in flight (18:6). David’s heartbreak is echoed repeatedly in the history of these tragedies (2 Sam 13:1; 19:4) and in some of his psalms. Even when David was dying, his son Adonijah was attempting to usurp the throne, and was later executed as a traitor (1 Kin 1:5; 2:25).
2 Samuel 12:11 Lit the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12 Lit before the sun.