2 Samuel 12:10-11

12:10

sword <02719> [the sword.]

For <06118> [because.]

taking <03947> [hast taken.]

12:11

bring <06965> [I will raise.]

take <03947> [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.