New English Translation

2 Samuel 12:6-10 New English Translation (NET)

6. Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”

7. Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

8. I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well!

9. Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

10. So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’