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.
A.M.
2 Samuel 7:1-5 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD …
2 Samuel 24:11-13 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to …
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
1 Kings 18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came …
2 Kings 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go …
unto David
2 Samuel 11:10-17,25 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his …
2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which …
Isaiah 57:17,18 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: …
he came
Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness…
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.
2 Samuel 14:5-11 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed …
Judges 9:7-15 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of …
1 Kings 20:25-41 And number you an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for …
Isaiah 5:1-7 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching …
Matthew 21:22-45 And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you …
Luke 15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
David's
Genesis 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, …
1 Samuel 25:21,22 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow …
Luke 6:41,42 And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but perceive …
Luke 9:55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner …
Romans 2:1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge: …
As the Lord
1 Samuel 14:39 For, as the LORD lives, which saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan …
shall surely die. or, is worthy to die [heb] is a son of death
1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the ground, you shall not …
1 Samuel 26:16 This thing is not good that you have done. As the LORD lives, you …
And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
Thou art
1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly: you have not kept …
1 Kings 18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's …
1 Kings 21:19,20 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
Matthew 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with …
I anointed
2 Samuel 7:8 Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the …
1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you …
1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle …
I delivered
2 Samuel 22:1,49 And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that …
1 Samuel 18:11,21 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to …
1 Samuel 19:10-15 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: …
1 Samuel 23:7,14,26-28 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, …
Psalm 18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
thy master's wives
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out …
1 Kings 2:22 And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do you …
gave thee
2 Samuel 2:4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over …
2 Samuel 5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in …
1 Samuel 15:19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly on the …
I would
2 Samuel 7:19 And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you …
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and …
Psalm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long …
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
despised
2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because …
2 Samuel 11:4,14-17 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, …
Genesis 9:5,6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of …
Exodus 20:13,14 You shall not kill…
Numbers 15:30,31 But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in …
1 Samuel 15:19,23 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly on the …
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes …
Amos 2:4 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, …
Hebrews 10:28,29 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses…
to do evil
2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley …
Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your …
Psalm 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light …
Psalm 139:1,2 O lord, you have searched me, and known me…
Jeremiah 18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will …
thou hast
2 Samuel 11:15-27 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set you Uriah in the forefront …
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
the sword
2 Samuel 13:28,29 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
2 Samuel 18:14,15,33 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with you. And he took three …
1 Kings 2:23-25 Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also…
Amos 7:9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries …
Matthew 26:52 Then said Jesus to him, Put up again your sword into his place: for …
because
Numbers 11:20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it …
1 Samuel 2:30 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …
Malachi 1:6,7 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a …
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and …
Romans 2:4 Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering…
1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also …
hast taken
Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, …
Proverbs 6:32,33 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he …
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
I will raise
2 Samuel 13:1-14,28,29 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had …
2 Samuel 15:6,10 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king …
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.
2 Samuel 16:21,22 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, …
Deuteronomy 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you …
Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the …
Ezekiel 20:25,26 Why I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby …
Hosea 4:13,14 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on …
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
secretly
2 Samuel 11:4,8,13,15 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, …
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, …
Luke 12:1,2 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable …
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
David
1 Samuel 15:20,24 And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, …
1 Kings 13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man …
1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, …
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, …
2 Kings 1:9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And …
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; …
2 Chronicles 24:20-22 And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, …
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
Matthew 14:3-5,10 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison …
I have sinned
2 Samuel 24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. …
1 Samuel 15:24,25,30 And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the …
Job 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why …
Job 33:27 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that …
Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…
Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your …
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise …
Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …
Luke 15:21 And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and …
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said …
1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth …
The Lord
Job 7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? …
Psalm 32:1,2 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered…
Psalm 130:3,4 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand…
Isaiah 6:5-7 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean …
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to …
Isaiah 43:24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled …
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as …
Lamentations 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according …
Micah 7:18,19 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …
Zechariah 3:4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, …
Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world…
1 John 1:7,9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship …
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. …
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first …
thou
Leviticus 20:10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he …
Numbers 35:31-33 Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, …
Psalm 51:16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not …
Acts 13:38,39 Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this …
Romans 8:33,34 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that …
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
by this deed
Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, It is not good that you do…
Psalm 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme …
Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, said the LORD, that my people is …
Ezekiel 36:20-23 And when they entered to the heathen, where they went, they profaned …
Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses …
Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, …
the child
Psalm 89:31-33 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments…
Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
Proverbs 3:11,12 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary …
Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore …
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should …
Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and whips every son whom he receives.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
struck the child
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, …
1 Samuel 25:38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, …
1 Samuel 26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD lives, the LORD shall smite him; …
2 Kings 15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of …
2 Chronicles 13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: …
Psalm 104:29 You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
besought
2 Samuel 12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for …
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …
Isaiah 26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer …
Joel 2:12-14 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your …
Jonah 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his …
fasted [heb] fasted a fast
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and …
Psalm 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …
Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
lay all night
2 Samuel 13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; …
Job 20:12-14 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue…
And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
arose
Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell …
Job 2:10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. …
Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
Lamentations 3:39-41 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins…
anointed
Ruth 3:3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your raiment on …
Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
the house
2 Samuel 6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, …
2 Samuel 7:18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who …
Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell …
Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
I fasted
Isaiah 38:1-3,5 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet …
Joel 1:14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and …
Joel 2:14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him…
Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate…
Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What mean you, O …
Jonah 3:9,10 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his …
James 4:9,10 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to …
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
Nathan
2 Samuel 12:1-14 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to …
2 Samuel 7:4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came to …
1 Kings 1:11,23 Why Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Have …
Jedidiah. that it, Beloved of the Lord
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many …
Matthew 3:17 And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom …
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and …
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
Joab
2 Samuel 11:25 Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you say to Joab, Let …
1 Chronicles 20:1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time …
Rabbah. Rabbah, or Rabbath-Ammon, also called Philadelphia, from Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, was situated east of Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, ten miles east from jazer. It is sometimes mentioned as belonging to Arabia, sometimes to Coelo-Syria; and was one of the cities of the Decapolis east of Jordan. Josephus extends the region of Perea as far as Philadelphia. It is now, says Burchhardt, called Amman, distant about
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
took
1 Chronicles 20:2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found …
the weight If this talent was only {seven pounds}, as Whiston says, David might have carried it on his head with little difficulty; but this weight, according to common computation, would amount to nearly {114 pounds!} Some, therefore, think, that {mishkelah} should be taken for its {value}, not {weight}; which renders it perfectly plain, as the worth of the crown will be about
in great abundance [heb] very great
And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
and put them. Rather, as the particle () frequently signifies, `And he put them {to} saws, and {to} harrows, and {to} axes,' as we say, {to put a person to the plough, to the anvil, to the last, etc.}
1 Chronicles 20:3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with …
2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down …
Psalm 21:8,9 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall …
