2 Samuel 12:14
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
KJV
Verumtamen quoniam blasphemare fecisti inimicos Domini, propter verbum hoc, filius qui natus est tibi, morte morietur.
Vulgate
πλὴν ὅτι παροξύνων παρώξυνας τοὺς ἐχθροὺς Κυρίου ἐν τῷ ῥήματι τούτῳ, καί γε ὁ υἱός σου ὁ τεχθείς σοι θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖται.
LXX
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
ASV
אֶ֗פֶס כִּֽי נִאֵ֤ץ נִאַ֨צְתָּ֙ אֶת אֹיְבֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה בַּ/דָּבָ֖ר הַ/זֶּ֑ה גַּ֗ם הַ/בֵּ֛ן הַ/יִּלּ֥וֹד לְ/ךָ֖ מ֥וֹת יָמֽוּת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1736Every act directly willed is imputable to its author: Thus the Lord asked Eve after the sin in the garden: "What is this that you have done?"29 He asked Cain the same question.30 The prophet Nathan questioned David in the same way after he committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and had him murdered.31 An action can be indirectly voluntary when it results from negligence rega…
§2538The tenth commandment requires that envy be banished from the human heart. When the prophet Nathan wanted to spur King David to repentance, he told him the story about the poor man who had only one ewe lamb that he treated like his own daughter and the rich man who, despite the great number of his flocks, envied the poor man and ended by stealing his lamb.322 Envy can lead to t…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 11:30 — For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
- Heb 12:6 — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
- Isa 52:5 — Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
- Matt 18:7 — Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
- Neh 5:9 — Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
- Prov 3:11 — My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
- Ps 89:31 — If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
- Ps 94:12 — Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- Rev 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Rom 2:24 — For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
- Rom 14:13 — Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
- Titus 2:5 — To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.