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5 Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die![a]

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  1. 2 Samuel 12:5 tn Heb “the man doing this [is] a son of death.” See 1 Sam 20:31 for another use of this expression, which must mean “he is as good as dead” or “he deserves to die,” as 1 Sam 20:32 makes clear.