2 Samuel 12:9-14

Nathan Rebukes David

⁹ _c Why have you despised the word of the Lord, _d to do what is evil in his sight? _e You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and _f have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' ¹¹ Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. ¹² For you did it secretly, _g but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'" ¹³ _h David said to Nathan, _i "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, _j "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly _k scorned the Lord, ₁ the child who is born to you shall die."

1. Cross References
   Numbers 15:31
   Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Samuel 15:19
   Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord ? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord ?
   
3. Cross References
   2 Samuel 11:15
   In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.
   2 Samuel 11:17
   And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Samuel 11:27
   And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Samuel 16:22
   So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Samuel 15:24
   Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
   
7. Cross References
   2 Samuel 24:10
   But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
   Psalms 32:5
   I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
   Psalms 51:4
   Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
   
8. Cross References
   Psalms 32:1
   Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
   Micah 7:18
   Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
   Zechariah 3:4
   And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.
   
9. Cross References
   Isaiah 52:5
   Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
   Ezekiel 36:20
   But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.
   Ezekiel 36:23
   And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
   Romans 2:24
   For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.