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Why have you shown contempt for the Lord’s decrees[a] by doing evil in my[b] sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:9 tn Or “word, message.” The “word of the Lord” sometimes refers to a prophetic message from God and sometimes to his past revelation. Here it refers to the Lord’s laws which David has violated.
  2. 2 Samuel 12:9 tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”