2 Samuel 12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Then יהוה  sent Nathan to Dawiḏ

² “The rich one had flocks and herds, very many.

³ “But the poor one had only one little ewe lamb which he had bought and kept alive. And it grew up with him and with his children together. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom. And it was like a daughter to him.

⁴ “And a traveller came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

⁵ And the wrath of Dawiḏ

⁶ “Also, he has to repay fourfold for the lamb, because he did this deed and because he had no compassion.”

⁷ Then Nathan said to Dawiḏ

⁸ ‘And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Yisra’ĕ

⁹ ‘Why have you despised the Word of יהוה  to do evil in His eyes? You have killed Uriyah the Ḥ

¹⁰ ‘And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriyah the Ḥ

¹¹ “Thus said יהוה, ‘See, I am raising up evil against you, from your own house, and shall take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbour, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

¹² ‘For you did it in secret, but I shall do this deed before all Yisra’ĕ

¹³ And Dawiḏ

¹⁴ “However, because by this deed you have greatly scorned יהוה, the child also who is born to you shall certainly die.”

¹⁵ And Nathan went to his house, and יהוה  smote the child that Uriyah’s wife had born to Dawiḏ

¹⁶ And Dawiḏ

¹⁷ So the elders of his house stood up over him, to raise him up from the earth. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

¹⁸ And on the seventh day it came to be that the child died. And the servants of Dawiḏ

¹⁹ And Dawiḏ

²⁰ Dawiḏ

²¹ And his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept because of the living child, but when the child died, you rose up and ate food.”

²² And he said, “While the child was alive I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether יהוה  shows favour unto me, and the child shall live?’

²³ “But now he is dead, why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, but he does not return to me.”

²⁴ And Dawiḏ

²⁵ and sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Yeḏ

²⁶ And Yo’aḇ

²⁷ And Yo’aḇ

²⁸ “And now, gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and it be called after my name.”

²⁹ And Dawiḏ

³⁰ And he took their sovereign’s crown from his head. And its weight was a talent of gold, with precious stones, and it was on Dawiḏ

³¹ And he brought out the people who were in it, and set them to the saw and to sharp instruments of iron and to axes of iron, and made them pass over to the brick works. And so he did with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And Dawiḏ