9 Why then have you despised the command of the Lord by doing what I consider(a) evil?(A) You struck down Uriah(B) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.(C) 10 Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house(D) because you despised Me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own wife.’

Footnotes:

a. 2 Samuel 12:9: Alt Hb tradition reads what He considers

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