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shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing dis- 7 And Nathan said to David: Thou art the
courage thee: for various is the event of war: and man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I
sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered
by the sword: encourage thy warriors against thee from the hand of Saul,
the city, and exhort them that thou mayest over- 8 And gave thee thy master’s house and thy
throw it. master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the
26 And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her house of Israel and Juda: and if these things be
husband was dead, and she mourned for him. little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.
27 And the mourning being over, David sent 9 Why therefore hast thou despised the word
and brought her into his house, and she became of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast
his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast
which David had done, was displeasing to the taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him
Lord. with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10 Therefore the sword shall never depart
from thy house, because thou hast despised me,
Chapter 12 and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to

be thy wife.
And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when 11 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise
he was come to him, he said to him: There were up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I
two men in one city, the one rich, and the other will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them
poor. to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives
2 The rich man had exceeding many sheep and in the sight of this sun.
oxen. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this
3 But the poor man had nothing at all but thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight
one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and of the sun.
nourished up, and which had grown up in his 13 And David said to Nathan: I have sinned
house together with his children, eating of his against the Lord. And Nathan said to David:
bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou
his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter. shalt not die.
4 And when a certain stranger was come to 14 Nevertheless, because thou hast given oc-
the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep casion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme,
and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall
was come to him, but took the poor man’s ewe, surely die.
and dressed it for the man that was come to him. 15 And Nathan returned to his house. The
5 And David’s anger being exceedingly kin- Lord also struck the child which the wife of Urias
dled against that man, he said to Nathan: As had borne to David, and his life was despaired
the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is of.
a child of death. 16 And David besought the Lord for the child:
6 He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he and David kept a fast, and going in by himself
did this thing, and had no pity. lay upon the ground.