2 Samuel 12:11 “This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you fro…”

2 Samuel 12:11

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

World English Bible

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

American Standard Version

Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will rayse vp euil against thee out of thine owne house, and will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this sunne.

Darby Translation

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Young's Literal Translation

thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun;

Bible in Basic English

The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

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Cross references

“I will raise”

2 Samuel 13:1–14 2 Samuel 15:6 2 Samuel 15:10 2 Samuel 13:28 2 Samuel 13:29

2 Samuel 13:1–14 · BSB

After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:6 · BSB

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 15:10 · BSB

Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

2 Samuel 13:28 · BSB

Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valian…

2 Samuel 13:29 · BSB

So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.

“I will take”

Deuteronomy 28:30 Ezekiel 14:9 2 Samuel 16:21 2 Samuel 16:22 Ezekiel 20:25 Ezekiel 20:26

Deuteronomy 28:30 · BSB

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Ezekiel 14:9 · BSB

But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

2 Samuel 16:21 · BSB

Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be st…

2 Samuel 16:22 · BSB

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Ezekiel 20:25 · BSB

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Ezekiel 20:26 · BSB

And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Now, therefore, 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 own.’

12You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”

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