2 Samuel 12:7-12

Christian Standard Bible

⁷ Nathan replied to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel,^(A) and I rescued you from Saul. ⁸ I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms,^[a] and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more. ⁹ Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider^[b] evil?^(B) You struck down Uriah^(C) the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.^{(D) 10} Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house^(E) because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.’

¹¹ “This is what the Lord says,^(F) ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another^[c] before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them in broad daylight.^{[d] 12} You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”^[e]