2 Samuel 12:14
However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
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- Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
- Rom 2:24 : 24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
- 1 Cor 11:32 : 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."
- Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Ezek 36:20-23 : 20 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land. 21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went. 22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went. 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
- Amos 3:2 : 2 "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
- Matt 18:7 : 7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
- Neh 5:9 : 9 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- Ps 74:10 : 10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Ps 89:31-33 : 31 If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments; 32 Then I will punish their sin with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
- Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;
- Prov 3:11-12 : 11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof: 12 For whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; Even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
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- 2 Sam 12:15-162 verses85%
15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
- 2 Sam 12:9-135 verses81%
9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10 Now therefore 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.'
11 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.
12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
13 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 Sam 12:18-192 verses77%
18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.
- 2 Sam 12:5-73 verses76%
5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
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12 Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
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14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;
- 2 Sam 11:26-272 verses71%
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
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16 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.
- 2 Sam 11:14-152 verses70%
14 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
- 2 Sam 1:15-162 verses70%
15 David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died.
16 David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
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20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
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30 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
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11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
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33 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
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15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad.
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10 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
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15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
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19 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
- 1 Kgs 14:16-172 verses69%
16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
17 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
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18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
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18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this thing to you this day.
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21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
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22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.
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17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
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1 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
- 1 Chr 13:10-112 verses68%
10 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God.
11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza; and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
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17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house.
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5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
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22 therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
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14 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
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31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.
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14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
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21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
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8 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
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17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
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38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
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7 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.