Natan departed to his house. The LORD struck the child that Uriyah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
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 shall surely die.*
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Yotam the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
Neither did Yarov`am recover strength again in the days of Aviyah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
It happened about ten days after, that the LORD struck Naval, so that he died.
David said, As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.