⁵ The woman conceived and sent word to inform David, “I am pregnant.”

¹⁴ However, because you treated^[a] the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”^{(A) 15} Then Nathan went home.

The Death of Bathsheba’s Son

The Lord struck the baby that Uriah’s^(B) wife had borne to David, and he became deathly ill.