⁷ Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!^(A) This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed^(B) you^(C) king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

⁴⁰ While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.”

“That is your sentence,”^(A) the king of Israel said. “You have pronounced it yourself.”