2 Samuel 12:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The sword shall never depart from thy house During the residue of thy life. As long as he lived, at times there should be destruction made in his family by the sword, which was awfully fulfilled in the violent deaths of his children, Amnon and Absalom, and, about the time of his death, Adonijah.

2 Samuel 12:10

10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.