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14 Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord[a] by doing this, your child will die.”

15 After Nathan returned to his home, the Lord sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah’s wife. 16 David begged God to spare the child. He went without food and lay all night on the bare ground.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:14 As in Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text reads the enemies of the Lord.

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