2 Samuel 12:11
This is what the Lord says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
“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.
Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I will raise
- 2 Samuel 13:1–14, 28, 29; 2 Samuel 15:6, 10
- I will take
- That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.
- 2 Samuel 16:21, 22; Deuteronomy 28:30; Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 20:25, 26; Hosea 4:13, 14