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Themes in 2 Samuel 12
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Themes in 2 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 12:1

So Yahweh sent Nathan to David, and he came to him and said, "Two men were in a certain city; one [was] rich and the other [was] poor.

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich [man] had very many flocks and herds,

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor [man] had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him.

2 Samuel 12:4

And a visitor came to the rich man, but he {was reluctant} to take from his flocks or from his herds to prepare a meal for the traveler when he came to him. So he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him."

2 Samuel 12:5

Then {the anger of David was kindled} against the man, and he said to Nathan, "{As Yahweh lives}, the man who has done this {deserves to die}!

2 Samuel 12:6

He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this thing, and because he had no pity."

2 Samuel 12:7

Then Nathan said to him, "You [are] the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:8

I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if [that had been too] little, I would have added to you {much more}.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the {Ammonites}!

2 Samuel 12:10

So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!'

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I [am] going to raise up evil against you from [within] your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives {in broad daylight}.

2 Samuel 12:12

Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"

2 Samuel 12:13

Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh!" Nathan said to David, "Yahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die.

2 Samuel 12:14

But because you have {utterly scorned} Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you {will certainly die}."

2 Samuel 12:15

Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill.

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded [with] God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he [was] not willing, and he did not eat [any] food with them.

2 Samuel 12:18

It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David [were] afraid to tell him that the child [was] dead, for they said, "Look, when the child [was] alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child [is] dead'? He may do [something] evil."

2 Samuel 12:19

When David saw that his servants [were] whispering together, he realized that the child [was] dead. Then David said to his servants, "[Is] the child dead?" And they said, "He [is] dead."

2 Samuel 12:20

David stood up from the ground and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothing. Then he went [to] the house of Yahweh and worshiped, and he went to his [own] house. He asked, so they served him food, and he ate.

2 Samuel 12:21

Then his servants said to him, "What [is] this thing that you have done? While the child [was] alive, you fasted and wept; [now] that the child has died, you get up and eat food!"

2 Samuel 12:22

He said, "When the child [was] still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, 'Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.'

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he [is] dead. Why [should I be] fasting? [Am] I able to return him again? I [am] going to him, but he cannot return to me."

2 Samuel 12:24

David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he called him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him.

2 Samuel 12:25

He sent [word] by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah because of Yahweh.

2 Samuel 12:26

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the {Ammonites}, and he captured {the royal city}.

2 Samuel 12:27

Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters.

2 Samuel 12:28

So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it."

2 Samuel 12:29

So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

2 Samuel 12:30

He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight [was] a talent of gold, and there [was] a precious stone [in it] and it [was] put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city {in great abundance}.

2 Samuel 12:31

He also brought out the people who [were] in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the {Ammonites}, and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.
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