2 Samuel 12:10

2 Samuel 12:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)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.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

Context of 2 Samuel 12:10

8I gave your master's palace to you, and his wives as well. I gave the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to you. And if that was not enough for you, I would have given you even more than that. 9But now you have not respected the Lord's command. You have done an evil thing. You caused Uriah the Hittite to die in a battle. You used the Ammonite soldiers to kill Uriah. So now your family will always have people who die in battle. When you took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own wife, you showed that you did not respect me.” 11This is what the Lord says, “I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble to you. You yourself will see it happen! I will take your wives from you and I will give them to someone else. He will have sex with them in the daytime, for everyone to see. 12What you did, you did secretly. But I will cause this to happen in the light of day, so that all Israel can see it.” ’

2 Samuel 12:10 word by word

וְעַתָּ֗ה לֹא־תָס֥וּר חֶ֛רֶב מִבֵּיתְךָ֖ עַד־עוֹלָ֑ם עֵ֚קֶב כִּ֣י בְזִתָ֔נִי וַתִּקַּ֗ח אֶת־אֵ֙שֶׁת֙ אוּרִיָּ֣ה הַחִתִּ֔י לִהְי֥וֹת לְךָ֖ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Now therefore the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• shall neverעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• shall neverעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• departסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: departH5493
• from thine houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
• becauseעֵ֫קֶב‛êqeb · consequenceH6118
• thou hast despisedבָּזָהbâzâh · to despiseH959
• me, and hast takenלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• the wifeאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: wifeH802
• of Uriahאוּרִיָּה'ûrîyâh 'ûrîyâhû · UriahH223
• the Hittiteחִתִּיchittîy · HittiteH2850

Cross-references for 2 Samuel 12:10

• 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom then told his servants, ‘When Amnon has drunk a lot of wine I will tell you, “Knock him down!” Then you must kill him immediately. Do not be afraid. I am the one who is commanding you to do this. So be strong and brave.’
• 2 Samuel 18:14Joab said, ‘I cannot stay here while you talk like this.’ So he took three spears and he went to the tree where Absalom was hanging. While Absalom was still alive, Joab pushed the spears into Absalom's heart.
• 1 Kings 2:23Then King Solomon made this strong promise in the Lord's name. He said, ‘Because Adonijah has asked to have Abishag as his wife, I will certainly punish him with death. If I do not do that, I pray that God will punish me instead!
• Amos 7:9I will send enemies to destroy the holy places of Isaac's descendants. All Israel's holy places will fall down. Enemies will use swords to kill King Jeroboam and his family.’
• Matthew 26:52Then Jesus said to the disciple, ‘Put your sword back in its place. People who use a sword to kill others will themselves die in the same way. Someone will kill them with a sword.
• Numbers 11:20You will eat it every day for a whole month! You will hate the smell of it and it will seem disgusting to you. This is because you have turned against the Lord. He is near to you and you have wept in front of him. You have said, ‘We should never have left Egypt.’ ” ’
• 1 Samuel 2:30Because of what you have done, the Lord, Israel's God, says this to you: “I promised your family and your ancestors that they would serve me as priests for ever.” But now the Lord says, “That will never happen! I will give honour to people who respect me. But I will curse people who insult me.
• Malachi 1:6The Lord Almighty says this to the priests: ‘A son respects his father. A servant respects his master. If I am really your father and your master, why do you not respect me? You are my priests, but you insult my name. But then you ask, “What have we done to insult your name?”
• Matthew 6:24Jesus said, ‘Nobody can work as a slave for two masters at the same time. Maybe he will hate one of the masters, but he will love the other one. Or he will work well for one master, but he will think bad things about the other master. God and money are like different masters. You cannot work for both of them.
• Romans 2:4Remember that God is very kind and patient with us. He waits a long time before he punishes us. Do you not think that that is important? You should understand that God is giving you a chance to change. He waits patiently, so that you may turn away from wrong things.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:8So do not refuse to accept what I am saying. If you do, it is not just a person that you refuse to obey. You are refusing to obey God. And God is the one who has given his Holy Spirit to you.
• Genesis 20:3But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream. He said to Abimelech, ‘Now you will die! The woman that you have taken to be your wife is already a married woman.’
• Proverbs 6:32But a man who sleeps with another man's wife is stupid. He is destroying his own life.

Commentaries on 2 Samuel 12:10

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10Now (literally forever): This phrase points to ongoing consequences. It stands in contrast to God’s gracious promises of a lasting kingdom that God gave to David earlier (2 Samuel 7:13–29). This is a reminder of what David did with the sword (2 Samuel 12:9) and how the sword would affect his family. This recalls David's careless reaction to Joab's report about the deaths of Uriah and other innocent Israelites (2 Samuel 11:25).Read the comment

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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings