2 Samuel 12:5-10 Modern English Version (MEV)

5. David became very angry because of this man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die.

6. And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”

7. Then Nathan told David, “You are this man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I anointed you as king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.

8. I gave to you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms, and I gave to you the house of Israel and Judah. If this were too little, I would have continued to do for you much more.

9. Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and you took his wife as a wife for yourself. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

10. Now the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

2 Samuel 12