Bible Quote for January 23

David’s Punishment  (Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing, and God’s “Forgiveness”)

“Thus says the Lord: ‘I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives (plural) while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor.  He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.  You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'”

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”  Nathan answered David: “The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die.  But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die.”  (The child dies seven days later.)   (2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)