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I gave your master’s house[a] to you, and gave his wives into your embrace. I gave you the house[b] of Israel and Judah. If that was too little, I would have given even more. Why have you despised the Lord’s word by doing what is evil in his eyes? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and taken his wife as your own. You used the Ammonites to kill him. 10 Because of that, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own, the sword will never leave your own house.

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  1. 2 Samuel 12:8 Syr daughters
  2. 2 Samuel 12:8 Syr daughters

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