BLB 2Sa 12

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2Sa 12:1 — And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		A. M. 2970. B.C. 1034.
Entire Verse.		An. Ex. Is. 457.
the LORD		2Sa 7:1-5; 2Sa 24:11-13; 1Ki 13:1; 1Ki 18:1; 2Ki 1:3
unto David		2Sa 11:10-17,25; 2Sa 14:14; Isa 57:17,18
he came		Psa 51:1; *title
There were		There is nothing in this parable which requires illustration. Its bent is evident; and it was wisely constructed, by not having too near a resemblance, to make David unwittingly pass sentence on himself. The parable was in David's hand what his own letter was in the hands of the brave Uriah. Nathan at length closed in with him in the application of it. In beginning with a parable he shewed his prudence, and great need there is of prudence in giving reproof; but now he speaks as an ambassador from God. He reminds David of the great things God had designed and done for him, and then charges him with a high contempt of the Divine authority, and threatens an entail of judgments upon his family for this sin. Those who despise the word and law of God, despise God himself, and will assuredly suffer for such contempt. 2Sa 14:5-11; Jdg 9:7-15; 1Ki 20:35-41; Isa 5:1-7; Mat 21:33-45; Luk 15:11-32; Luk 16:19-31

Correlating Passages

the LORD

	2Sa 7:1	And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
	2Sa 7:2	That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
	2Sa 7:3	And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in thine heart; for the LORD [is] with thee.
	2Sa 7:4	And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
	2Sa 7:5	Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
	2Sa 24:11	For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
	2Sa 24:12	Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]; choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] unto thee.
	2Sa 24:13	So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
	1Ki 13:1	And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
	1Ki 18:1	And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
	2Ki 1:3	But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

unto David

	2Sa 11:10	And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?
	2Sa 11:11	And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
	2Sa 11:12	And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
	2Sa 11:13	And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
	2Sa 11:14	And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.
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	2Sa 11:25	Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
	2Sa 14:14	For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
	Isa 57:17	For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
	Isa 57:18	I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

he came

Psa 51:1

[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.]] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

There were

	2Sa 14:5	And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I [am] indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
	2Sa 14:6	And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and [there was] none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
	2Sa 14:7	And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.
	2Sa 14:8	And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
	2Sa 14:9	And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity [be] on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne [be] guiltless.
	2Sa 14:10	And the king said, Whosoever saith [ought] unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
	2Sa 14:11	Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
	Jdg 9:7	And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
	Jdg 9:8	The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
	Jdg 9:9	But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
	Jdg 9:10	And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, [and] reign over us.
	Jdg 9:11	But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
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	1Ki 20:35	And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
	1Ki 20:36	Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
	1Ki 20:37	Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded [him].
	1Ki 20:38	So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
	1Ki 20:39	And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
	1Ki 20:40	And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So [shall] thy judgment [be]; thyself hast decided [it].
	1Ki 20:41	And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets.
	Isa 5:1	Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
	Isa 5:2	And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
	Isa 5:3	And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
	Isa 5:4	What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
	Isa 5:5	And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
	Isa 5:6	And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
	Isa 5:7	For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
	Mat 21:33	Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
	Mat 21:34	And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
	Mat 21:35	And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
	Mat 21:36	Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
	Mat 21:37	But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
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	Luk 15:11	And he said, A certain man had two sons:
	Luk 15:12	And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.
	Luk 15:13	And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
	Luk 15:14	And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
	Luk 15:15	And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.