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Then Nathan said to him, “You are the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if that had been too little, I would have added to you much more.[a] Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes?[b] Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites![c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:8 Literally “as here and as here”
  2. 2 Samuel 12:9 Thus Kethib; the reading tradition (Qere) reads “my eyes”
  3. 2 Samuel 12:9 Literally “sons/children of Ammon”