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2 Samuel 11
²³ The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.
²⁴ Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead."
²⁵ Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, ’Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and overthrow it’; and so encourage him."
²⁶ Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
²⁷ When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Samuel 12
¹ Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said, "There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor.
² "The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.
³ "But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nourished; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, And was like a daughter to him.
⁴ "Now a traveler came to the rich man, And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him; Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
⁵ Then David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die.
⁶ He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion."