When Uriah died, his accompanying soldiers died with him. Why did Nathan not rebuke David for their deaths?

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2 Samuel 12:

9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

The prophet Nathan was focusing on the main point: the death of Uriah. The others were collateral damages. But look at the punishment:

10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

Was David's house punished only because of David's taking Uriah's wife?

No. This was a huge punishment.

For what?

For despising God, including taking Bathsheba, ordering Uriah's death, the collateral deaths of the innocent soldiers, etc.

Why was David not rebuked for the death of these innocent men?

Nathan focused on the main point of David's ordering the death of Uriah.