²⁷ After the time of mourning^(A) was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased^(B) the Lord.

⁹ Why did you despise^(A) the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down^(B) Uriah^(C) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed^(D) him with the sword of the Ammonites.

⁷ This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.

²⁹ he shall pay her father fifty shekels^[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

¹⁰ What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.^(A)

⁴ Marriage should be honored by all,^(A) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.^(B)

¹³ After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives^(A) in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. ¹⁴ These are the names of the children born to him there:^(B) Shammua, Shobab, Nathan,^(C) Solomon, ¹⁵ Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, ¹⁶ Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.