²⁷ And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

⁹ Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

⁴ Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

⁵ Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

¹⁰ And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.

²⁹ Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

² While David was in Hebron he became the father of sons: the oldest was Amnon, son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;

³ And the second, Chileab, whose mother was Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom, son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

⁴ And the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

⁵ And the sixth, Ithream, whose mother was David's wife Eglah. These were the sons of David, whose birth took place in Hebron.

¹³ And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

¹⁴ These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

¹⁵ And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia

¹⁶ And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

⁷ And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

⁶ You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

⁴ Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.