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What does 2 Samuel 12:13 mean?
"David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die."
— 2 Samuel 12:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.
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