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2Sa 12:11 — 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.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

I will raise	2Sa 13:1-14,28,29; 2Sa 15:6,10
I will take	That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented. 2Sa 16:21,22; Deu 28:30; Eze 14:9; Eze 20:25,26; Hsa 4:13,14