Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Study Helps
Interpretation
God will not suffer his people to lie still in sin. By this parable Nathan drew from David a sentence against himself.
Read with
This thought runs through 2 Samuel 12:7-10.
Glossary
- Uriah Person
- The Lord is my light. (1. ) A Hittite, the husband of Bathsheba, whom David first seduced, and then after Uriah’s death married. He was one of the band of David’s.