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2 Samuel 12:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider  evil?  You struck down Uriah  the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife #– #you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.

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So why didn’t you obey the Lord? Why did you rush on the plunder  and do what was evil in the Lord’s sight? ’


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord and have not kept his statutes. The lies  that their ancestors followed have led them astray.


However, if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to me, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.


For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness  and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the  Lord, he has rejected you as king.


Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness.  Afterwards, she returned home.


He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley.  He practised witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists.  He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.


Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house  because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.”


Samuel replied to Saul, ‘I will not return with you. Because you rejected the word of the Lord,  the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.’


Shimei said as he cursed, ‘Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, you wicked man!


For David did what was right in the Lord’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life,  except in the matter of Uriah  the Hethite.


Tell him, “This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered  and also taken possession? ”  Then tell him, “This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood! ” ’


Whoever lives with integrity fears the  Lord, but the one who is devious in his ways despises him.





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