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27 When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.

Nathan Condemns David

But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,(A)

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Against you, you alone, have I sinned
    and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
    and blameless when you pass judgment.(A)
Indeed, I was born guilty,
    a sinner when my mother conceived me.(B)

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Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.(A)

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But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel.

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29 the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her, he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

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Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.(A)

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You destroy those who speak lies;
    the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful.(A)

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13 In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives, and more sons and daughters were born to David.(A) 14 These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,(B) 15 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

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Sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel;(A) his second was Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third was Absalom son of Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;(B) the fourth was Adonijah son of Haggith; the fifth was Shephatiah son of Abital;(C) and the sixth was Ithream, of David’s wife Eglah. These were born to David in Hebron.

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10 What he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

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