5. David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
6. He must 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 the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
8. I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
9. Why have you despised the Lord’s word, 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 Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
11. “This is what the Lord 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 this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
13. David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin. You will not die.
14. However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the Lord’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
15. Nathan departed to his house.The Lord 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 ground.
17. The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
18. On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid 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 harm 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.”
20. Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the Lord’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.
21. Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”