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.
11. “Thus says the Lord: See, I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house. I will take your wives before your eyes and will give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
12. Although you did it secretly, I will do this thing before all of Israel, and under the sun.”
13. Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”Nathan said to David, “Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.
14. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
15. Then Nathan went to his house. The Lord struck the child that the wife of Uriah had born for David, and he became sick.
16. David entreated God on behalf of the child. He fasted for a period, and he would go in and lie throughout the night on the ground.
17. The elders of his house stood beside him to rouse him from the ground, but he was not willing, nor would he consume food with them.
18. The child died on the seventh day, and the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child had died. They said, “When the child was alive, we would speak to him, but he would not acknowledge our voices. Now how can we say to him, ‘The child is dead’? He may do harm.”
19. When David noticed that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?”They said, “He is dead.”
20. So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his garments. Then he entered the house of the Lord and worshipped. He then went in to his own house. When he asked, they set down food for him and ate.