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2. SamuelKapitel 12

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So the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said: "There were two men in a certain city, one rich and one poor.
The rich man had flocks and herds in great number,
but the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. She ate from his own morsel and drank from his own cup and slept in his arms; she was like a daughter to him.
Then a traveler came to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the guest who had come to him. So he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
He must repay for the lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity."
Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have added much more for you.
Why then did you despise the word of the LORD and do what is evil in my sight? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own wife. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own wife.
This is what the LORD says: I am going to raise up disaster against you out of your own house. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to your own neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
You acted in secret, but I will do this thing before all Israel and in broad daylight."
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD has also taken away your sin; you will not die.
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.[^1] [^1]: The Hebrew text reads "you have shown utter contempt for the enemies of the LORD"; the word "enemies" is widely understood as an early scribal softening of a statement that seemed too harsh.
Then Nathan went home. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became gravely ill.
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, and he went in and lay all night on the ground.
The elders of his household stood beside him to raise him from the ground, but he refused and would not eat any food with them.
On the seventh day the child died. David's servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "While the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he would not listen to us. How can we tell him the child is dead? He may do something terrible."
But David saw his servants whispering to one another, and he understood that the child was dead. "Is the child dead?" he asked them. "He is dead," they answered.
Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; then he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. He returned to his own house and asked for food, and they set it before him, and he ate.
His servants said to him, "What is this you have done? While the child was alive you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead you got up and ate food."
He answered, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I thought, 'Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.'
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and she named him Solomon. The LORD loved him,
and he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah, for the LORD's sake.
Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.
Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
Now gather the rest of the troops, lay siege to the city, and take it—otherwise I will take the city myself, and it will be named after me."
So David gathered all the troops, went to Rabbah, attacked it, and captured it.
He took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David's head. He also brought out great quantities of plunder from the city.
He brought out the people who were there and put them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and he set them to work at the brick kilns. He did this to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.
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