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“‘I gave you your former[a] master’s household.

“‘I placed your former[b] master’s wives right in your arms.

“‘I gave you[c] Israel and Judah.

“‘And if this had been too little, I would have added much more than that to you!

“‘Why did you despise what the Lord has promised by doing what is detestable in his sight?

“‘You struck down Uriah the Hittite with a battle sword.

“‘You took his wife to be your own.[d]

“‘You killed him with the sword of the Ammonite army.

10 “‘Therefore the sword will never leave your household, because you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:8 The Heb. lacks former
  2. 2 Samuel 12:8 The Heb. lacks former
  3. 2 Samuel 12:8 Lit. you the house of
  4. 2 Samuel 12:9 Lit. wife
  5. 2 Samuel 12:10 Lit. wife