Nathan the prophet corners King David with a story about a stolen lamb, and the child born to Bathsheba dies on the seventh day.
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Lyrics
The LORD sent Nathan to David and he came to him and said to him There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor The rich man had very many flocks and herds
But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and raised It grew up together with him and with his children It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom And was like a daughter to him
A traveler came to the rich man and he didn’t want to take of his own flock and of his own herd To prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him But took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him David’s anger burned hot against the man and he said to Nathan, As the LORD lives
The man who has done this deserves to die He must restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity Nathan said to David, You are the man This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says
I anointed you king over Israel and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom And gave you the house of Israel and of Judah and if that would have been too little I would have added to you many more such things
Why have you despised the LORD’s word to do that which is evil in his sight You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife And have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house
Because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife 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
For you did this secretly but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD Nathan said to David, The LORD also has put away your sin You will not die
However because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to blaspheme The child also who is born to you will surely die The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David and he was very sick David therefore begged God for the child and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground
On the seventh day the child died and David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead But when David saw that his servants were whispering together David perceived that the child was dead And David said, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead
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