2 Samuel 12:12

12 You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.' "^[a][b]

2 Samuel 12:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:12

For thou didst [it] secretly
Committed adultery with Bathsheba privately, and endeavoured to conceal it, by getting her husband killed in battle, and then marrying her as soon as he could to hide the shame of it:

but one will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun;
as the above fact was; that is, he would suffer it to he done, and so order it in his providence, that everything should concur to the doing of it; as David's leaving his wives behind him, Ahithophel's wicked counsel he was suffered to give, and the lustful inclination Absalom was left unto, and not any of the people of Israel having religion, spirit, and courage enough to remonstrate against it.

2 Samuel 12:12 In-Context

10 Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house because you despised Me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own wife.'

11 "This is what the Lord says, 'I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them publicly.

12 You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.' "

13 David responded to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Then Nathan replied to David, "The Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.

14 However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die."

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit and before the sun
• [b]. 2 Sm 16:21-22