Scriptures

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2 Samuel 11
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. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him."
²⁶ When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
²⁷ And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
2 Samuel 12
¹ Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: "There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.
² The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds.
³ But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.
⁴ And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
⁵ So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die!
⁶ And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity."
⁷ Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ’I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
⁸ I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!