2 Samuel 12:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ Why then have you despised the word of Adonai by doing such evil in My eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to be your wife, and him you have slain with the sword of the children of Ammon

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, doing evil in His sight? You have slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have murdered him with the sword of the Ammonites. [Lev. 20:10; 24:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Common English Bible

⁹ Why have you despised the LORD’s word by doing what is evil in his eyes? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and taken his wife as your own. You used the Ammonites to kill him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Therefore, why have you despised the word of the Lord, so that you did evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword. And you have taken his wife as a wife for yourself. And you have put him to death with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword; and hast taken his wife to be thy wife; and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 12:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:4

Then David sent messengers and took her when she came to him, and he lay with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness). Then she returned to her house.

2 Samuel 12:10

So 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.

2 Samuel 16:7

Thus Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out! The man of bloodshed, the good-for-nothing!

1 Kings 15:5

For David did what was right in Adonai’s eyes and did not turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: Have you murdered and then taken possession?’ You shall also speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood too.’”

2 Chronicles 33:6

Furthermore, he made his children pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom and practiced witchcraft, divination and sorcery, and consulted ghosts and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of Adonai, provoking Him to anger.

Psalm 51:14

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51:16

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God— God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness.

Psalm 51:4

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 90:8

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Proverbs 14:2

The one who walks uprightly fears Adonai, but one devious in his ways despises Him.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw, and as chaff collapses into the flame, so their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust. For they have rejected the Torah of Adonai–Tzva’ot, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 18:10

But if it does evil in My sight, not listening to My voice, then I will relent of the good that I had said I would do to it.”

Amos 2:4

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.

1 Samuel 15:19

Why then did you not obey the voice of Adonai, but rushed greedily onto the spoil—doing what was evil in Adonai’s eyes?”

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is like the sin of divination and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Since you have rejected Adonai’s word, He has also rejected you as king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of Adonai, and Adonai has rejected you as king over Israel.”