2 Samuel 12:9

Translations

Modern

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Traditional

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Literal

Why have you despised the commandment of YHWH to do evil in His sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and his wife you have taken to be your wife, and him have killed with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

Latin

Quare ergo contempsisti verbum Domini, ut faceres malum in conspectu meo? Uriam Hethæum percussisti gladio, et uxorem illius accepisti in uxorem tibi, et interfecisti eum gladio filiorum Ammon.

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English

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Notes

2 Samuel 12:1–31

Chapter 12 expands on the final part of 2 Samuel 11:27.

Theme notes and profiles

Bathsheba David Hittites Dealing with Conflict Prophets in 1 Kings The Dangers of Sin

Events

Reign of David

Related verses

1 Samuel 15:19
So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”
Psalm 90:8
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Jeremiah 18:10
…and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
Psalm 139:1–2
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
Amos 2:4
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
Genesis 9:5–6
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Numbers 15:30–31
But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
2 Samuel 11:4
Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
Hebrews 10:28–29
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Exodus 20:13–14
You shall not murder.

Parallels

Psalm 51:1–19

People

Heth: Son of Canaan and ancestor of the Hittites Uriah: Hittite soldier; husband of Bathsheba

Places

Ammon: An ancient nation and its capital city, enemies of Israel

Glossary

Ahithophel Bathsheba David Hittites Joab King Kings, Books of First and Second Nathan Psalms, Book of Samuel, Books of First and Second

Topics

Christian Minister: Expostulate with Rulers: Nathan with David Christian Minister: Faithful: Nathan David: King of Israel is Rebuked by the Prophet Nathan Disobedience to God of David, in his Adultery, and in Arranging for the Death of Uriah Homicide: Felonious: David Homicide: Punishment of Homicide: The Punishment of Murderers: David Ingratitude of Man to God Ingratitude to God: David Kings: Punished for Transgressing the Divine Law Murder: David Nathan: A Prophet in the Time of David: Reproves David for his Adultery with Bath-Sheba and his Murder of Uriah Prophets were Sent to Denounce the Wickedness of Kings Repentance: David, at the Rebuke of Nathan, for his Sins of Adultery and Murder Reproof: Faithfulness in Nathan, of David Reproof: Nathan The Lamb of Any Thing Dear or Cherished Women: Bath-Sheba, in Her Adultery, in Becoming the Wife of Her Husband's Murderer

2 Samuel 12:9

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