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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Samuel 12 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Samuel 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/11.htm" title="2 Samuel 11">◄</a> 2 Samuel 12 <a href="../2_samuel/13.htm" title="2 Samuel 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_samuel/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Nathan Rebukes David</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the <span class="name">Lord</span> lives, the man who did this must die! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Why did you despise the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the <span class="name">Lord</span>.”</p><p class="reg">Nathan replied, “The <span class="name">Lord</span> has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text for the enemies of">a</a></sup></span> the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the son born to you will die.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>After Nathan had gone home, the <span class="name">Lord</span> struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have in sackcloth.">b</a></sup></span> on the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked.</p><p class="reg">“Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The <span class="name">Lord</span> may be gracious to me and let the child live.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and made love to her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The <span class="name">Lord</span> loved him; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and because the <span class="name">Lord</span> loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Jedidiah means loved by the LORD.">c</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now muster the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will take the city, and it will be named after me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>David took the crown from their king’s <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or from Milkom's (that is, Molek's)">d</a></sup></span> head, and it was placed on his own head. It weighed a talent <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms">e</a></sup></span> of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a great quantity of plunder from the city <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.">f</a></sup></span> David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text <i>for the enemies of</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have <i>in sackcloth</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Jedidiah</i> means <i>loved by the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>from Milkom’s</i> (that is, Molek’s)</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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