2 Samuel 12:9

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. When she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

2 Samuel 12:10

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.

2 Samuel 16:7

Shimei said when he cursed: “Come out! Come out! You bloodthirsty man, you scoundrel!

1 Kings 15:5

because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter involving Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession?” And you shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your own blood!”

2 Chronicles 33:6

He even made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he had conjurers, and practitioners of divination and sorcery, and necromancers, and mediums. So he did a great amount of evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that God was provoked.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Your righteousness.

Psalm 51:16

For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.

Psalm 90:8

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

Proverbs 14:2

He who walks in his righteousness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises Him.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 18:10

If it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would bless it.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray.

1 Samuel 15:19

Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? And why did you rush upon the spoil and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

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