2 Samuel 12:9-12

12:9 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. 12:10 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!’ 12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will have sexual relations with your wives in broad daylight! 12:12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’”


tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.

tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

tn Or “friend.”

tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

tn Heb “and before the sun.”