2 Samuel 12:11 (GNV)

Passage

Thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will rayse vp euil against thee out of thine owne house, and will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this sunne.

Nearby Context

2 Samuel 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the Lord, to doe euill in his sight? thou hast killed Vriah the Hittite with ye sworde, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slaine him with the sworde of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sworde shall neuer depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Vriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

2 Samuel 12:11 Thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will rayse vp euil against thee out of thine owne house, and will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this sunne.

2 Samuel 12:12 For thou diddest it secretly: but I will doe this thing before all Israel, and before the sunne.

2 Samuel 12:13 Then Dauid sayde vnto Nathan, I haue sinned against the Lord. And Nathan sayde vnto Dauid, The Lord also hath put away thy sinne, thou shalt not die.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thus", "sayth", "lord", "behold", "rayse", "euil", "against", and "thee". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thus" and "sayth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "Now therefore the sworde shall neuer depart..." into verse 12's "For thou diddest it secretly but I...", so "thus" and "sayth" belong inside that flow. In 2 Samuel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thus" and "sayth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.