13. Then David exclaimed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord!” Nathan replied to David, “Yes, and the Lord has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.
14. Nonetheless, because you have treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”
15. Then Nathan went to his home. The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.
16. Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.
17. The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.