2 Samuel 12:9   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 12:10   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

2 Samuel 12:11   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

"This is what the Lord says: 'Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 12:12   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.' "

2 Samuel 12:13   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan replied, "The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.

2 Samuel 12:14   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die."

2 Samuel 12:21   (Read all of 2 Samuel 12)

His attendants asked him, "Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!"

2 Samuel 13:4   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

He asked Amnon, "Why do you, the king's son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won't you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."

2 Samuel 13:5   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

"Go to bed and pretend to be ill," Jonadab said. "When your father comes to see you, say to him, 'I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.' "

2 Samuel 13:7   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

David sent word to Tamar at the palace: "Go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some food for him."

2 Samuel 13:10   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food here into my bedroom so I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in his bedroom.

2 Samuel 13:13   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you."

2 Samuel 13:16   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

"No!" she said to him. "Sending me away would be a greater wrong than what you have already done to me." But he refused to listen to her.

2 Samuel 13:20   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

Her brother Absalom said to her, "Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister; he is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart." And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.

2 Samuel 13:24   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

Absalom went to the king and said, "Your servant has had shearers come. Will the king and his attendants please join me?"

2 Samuel 13:25   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

"No, my son," the king replied. "All of us should not go; we would only be a burden to you." Although Absalom urged him, he still refused to go but gave him his blessing.

2 Samuel 13:26   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon come with us." The king asked him, "Why should he go with you?"

2 Samuel 13:28   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

Absalom ordered his men, "Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I given you this order? Be strong and brave."

2 Samuel 13:35   (Read all of 2 Samuel 13)

Jonadab said to the king, "See, the king's sons have come; it has happened just as your servant said."

2 Samuel 14:2   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, "Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don't use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.

2 Samuel 14:4   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, "Help me, Your Majesty!"

2 Samuel 14:5   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

The king asked her, "What is troubling you?" She said, "I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Samuel 14:6   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

2 Samuel 14:7   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, 'Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.' They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth."