11 “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.
12 For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin. You will not die.
14 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 will surely die.”
15 Nathan departed to his house.The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.
17 The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.