Study it in the app“Why have you despised the word of YHWH, doing evil in my eyes? Uriah the Hittite you struck with the sword, and his wife you took for yourself as wife, and him you killed with the sword of the sons of Ammon.”
Nathan confronts the king and David says, “I have sinned”Turning back to God
Whyמַדּוּעַhave you despisedבָּזִיתָthe wordדְּבַרof YHWH,יְהוָהdoingלַעֲשׂוֹתevilהָרַעin my eyes?בְּעֵינַיUriahאוּרִיָּהthe Hittiteהַחִתִּיyou struckהִכִּיתָwith the sword,בַחֶרֶבand his wifeוְ אִשְׁתּוֹyou tookלָקַחְתָּfor yourselfלְּךָas wife,לְאִשָּׁהand himוְאֹתוֹyou killedהָרַגְתָּwith the swordבְּחֶרֶבof the sonsבְּנֵיof Ammon.עַמּוֹן
why?
Why? For what reason?
Where else “madua” appearsdespise
Despise, think little of.
Where else “bazita” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “ra” appearssight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ena” appearsUriah
Uriah: the name of several men; the best known is the Hittite, one of David's mighty men and husband of Bathsheba, whom David had killed in battle (2 Samuel 11). It means "my light is YHWH."
Where else “uriya” appearsHittite
Hittite: a descendant of Heth, one of the peoples of Canaan.
Where else “chiti” appearsstrike dead
To strike dead, kill.
Where else “hikita” appearssword
A sword; or war.
Where else “cherev” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “isht” appearstake a wife
"Take a wife": to marry.
Where else “lakachta” appearskill
Kill, slay.
Where else “haragta” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsAmmon
See it on the mapWhere else “amon” appearsAmmon
Today: Amman (Rabbah) and surroundings, Jordan
The land east of the Jordan around Rabbah (present-day Amman, Jordan).
The Ammonites came from a son of Lot (Gen 19:38). Jephthah defeated them (Judg 11:32-33) and David took their capital (2 Sam 12:26).
8I gave you your lord’s house and your lord’s wives into your bosom, and I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that were too little, I would add to you as much and as much again.
9 · This verse (above)
10And now the sword shall not depart from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
