2 Samuel 12:11 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
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Read Full Chapter →God foretells that trouble will rise from David's own household, his wives taken openly before all.
What Does 2 Samuel 12:11 Mean?
The judgment grows sharper: the evil will rise out of thine own house. What David did in secret will be answered openly, fulfilled later when Absalom rebels and publicly claims his father's harem. The measure David used is measured back to him.
There is an exacting symmetry in God's justice. David took another man's wife by stealth; he will lose his own in the open. Sin has a strange way of returning in kind, teaching that what we do to others traces a path back to our own door. Yet even this severe word comes from a God who is still speaking to David, not abandoning him to silence.
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What does 2 Samuel 12:11 mean?
God foretells that trouble will rise from David's own household, his wives taken openly before all.