2 Samuel 12:13-18

13Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the Lord has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.

14Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord by doing this, your child will die.”

15After Nathan returned to his home, the Lord sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah’s wife.

16David begged God to spare the child. He went without food and lay all night on the bare ground.

17The elders of his household pleaded with him to get up and eat with them, but he refused.

18Then on the seventh day the child died. David’s advisers were afraid to tell him. “He wouldn’t listen to reason while the child was ill,” they said. “What drastic thing will he do when we tell him the child is dead?”