2 Samuel 12:14

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However, because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will surely die.'

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  • Isa 52:5 : 5 And now, what do I have here? declares the LORD. My people have been taken away for nothing, and their rulers mock, declares the LORD. And all day long, my name is constantly blasphemed.
  • Rom 2:24 : 24 For as it is written, 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.'
  • 1 Cor 11:32 : 32 Nevertheless, when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
  • Ezek 36:20-23 : 20 And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned my holy name, for it was said about them, 'These are the LORD's people, yet they had to leave his land.' 21 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they had gone. 22 Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone. 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have defiled among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I prove myself holy through you in their sight.
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 You only have I known among all the families of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Matt 18:7 : 7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
  • Neh 5:9 : 9 Then I said, 'What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of the nations, our enemies?'
  • Ps 74:10 : 10 How long, O God, will the enemy reproach? Will the adversary despise Your name forever?
  • Ps 89:31-33 : 31 If his sons forsake my law and do not walk according to my judgments, 32 if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments, 33 then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from Your law.
  • Prov 3:11-12 : 11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, and do not be weary of His reproof. 12 For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

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    15After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became ill.

    16David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying on the ground in sackcloth.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-13
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    9Why did you despise the word of the Lord 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!

    10Now, 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.'

    11This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

    12You did it in secret, but I will make this happen in front of all Israel and in broad daylight.'

    13Then David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the Lord.' Nathan replied, 'The Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.

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    18On 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 alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

    19David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized that the child was dead. 'Is the child dead?' he asked. 'Yes,' they replied, 'he is dead.'

  • 2 Sam 12:5-7
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    5David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

    6He must pay back four times the price of the lamb because he did such a thing and had no pity!

    7Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

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    12Now, get up and go back to your house. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

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    14So now the Lord is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a devastating plague.

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    26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

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    15In the letter, David wrote, 'Put Uriah at the front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and killed.'

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    15Then David called one of his young men and said, 'Come here and strike him down.' So he struck him, and he died.

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    19During the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.

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