2 Samuel 12:9
Why hast thou set at nought the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? thou hast slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and thou hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
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Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Numbers 15:31for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.
1 Samuel 15:23For sin is as divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject thee from being king over Israel.
2 Samuel 11:14And the morning came, and David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:27And the time of mourning expired, and David sent and took her into his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son: but the thing which David did was evil in the eyes of the Lord.
1 Kings 15:5Forasmuch as David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he turned not from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 12:2-15
Nathan's Parable; David's Repentance. ( b. c. 1036.) 1 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →