to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let
not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war: and
sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword: encourage thy
warriors against the city, and exhort them that thou mayest overthrow
it.

11:26. And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and
she mourned for him.

11:27. And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his
house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing
which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.

2 Kings Chapter 12

Nathan's parable. David confesseth his sin, and is forgiven: yet so as
to be sentenced to most severe temporal punishments. The death of the
child. The birth of Solomon. The taking of Rabbath.

12:1. And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he
said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other
poor.

12:2. The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.

12:3. But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which
he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house
together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his
cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.

12:4. And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to
take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who
was come to him, but took the poor man's ewe, and dressed it for the man
that was come to him.

12:5. And David's anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he
said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a
child of death.

12:6. He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and
had no pity.

12:7. And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord
the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered
thee from the hand of Saul,

12:8. And gave thee thy master's house and thy master's wives into thy
bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things
be little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.

12:9. Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil
in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast
taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the
children of Ammon.

12:10. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because
thou hast despised me, and hast t