2 Samuel 12:12 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.”
2 Samuel 12:12 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
2 Samuel 12:12 in 6 Bible Translations
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2 Samuel 12:12 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’””
2 Samuel 12:12 — World English Bible
2 Samuel 12:12 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.”
2 Samuel 12:12 — American Standard Version
2 Samuel 12:12 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“for thou hast done <FI>it<Fi> in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'”
2 Samuel 12:12 — Young's Literal Translation
2 Samuel 12:12 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“For thou didst [it] secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.”
2 Samuel 12:12 — Darby Translation
2 Samuel 12:12 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“For thou diddest it secretly: but I will doe this thing before all Israel, and before the sunne.”
2 Samuel 12:12 — Geneva Bible
2 Samuel 12:12 in Context — 2 Samuel 12
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
11 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
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What Does 2 Samuel 12:12 Mean?
2 Samuel 12:12 is a verse from the Book of 2 Samuel, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 2 Samuel chapter 12. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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