12:5 Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 1
12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose 2 you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
1 tn Heb “the man doing this [is] a son of death.” See 1 Sam 20:31 for another use of this expression, which must mean “he is as good as dead” or “he deserves to die,” as 1 Sam 20:32 makes clear.
2 tn Heb “anointed.”