2Sa 12:9-12 | ESV | STEP | Why have you despised the word of the Lord , to do what is evil in his sight ? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites .

2 Samuel 12:9-12

9 ^aWhy have you despised the word of the Lord, ^bto do what is evil in his sight? ^cYou have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^dhave taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘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 shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, ^ebut I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”