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13 David responded to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the Lord.’(A)

Then Nathan replied to David, ‘And the Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.(B) 14 However, because you treated[a] the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.’(C) 15 Then Nathan went home.

The Death of Bathsheba’s Son

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

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Footnotes

  1. 12:14 Alt Hb tradition, one LXX ms; MT reads treated the enemies of; DSS read treated the word of