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2. THE MESSAGE OF GOD AND DAVID'S CONFESSION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE
CHASTISEMENT
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. The Lord's message through Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1)_
2. David's anger (2 Samuel 12:5)
3. Thou art t...
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2 SAMUEL 12. DAVID'S REPENTANCE. CAPTURE OF RABBAH (J). The section
concerning Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1_ a_) is sometimes regarded as a later
addition by some one who was anxious to point out and emphasi...
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"The apologue of the rich man and the ewe lamb … ventures to
disregard all particulars, and is content to aim at awakening the
general sense of outraged justice. It fastens on the essential guilt
of D...
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DISCOURSE: 316
NATHAN’S PARABLE
2 Samuel 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. The rich...
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3. David's Repentance, 2 Samuel 12:1-31.
_Nathan's Parable._ 2 Samuel 12:1-6
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 ric...
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_THE RICH MAN HAD EXCEEDING MANY FLOCKS AND HERDS:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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DAVID'S REPENTANCE AND PARDON. THE CAPTURE OF RABBAH
4. To dress for the wayfaring man] We may notice Eastern ideas of
hospitality: cp. Genesis 18:3....
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 12
NATHAN’S MESSAGE TO DAVID
V1 The *Lord sent Nathan to David. Nathan went to David and he said,
‘Two men lived in a city. One ma...
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וַ יָּ֣בֹא הֵלֶךְ֮ לְ אִ֣ישׁ הֶֽ
עָשִׁיר֒
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CHAPTER XV.
_ DAVID AND NATHAN._
2 Samuel 12:1; 2 Samuel 12:26.
IT is often the method of the writers of Scripture, when the stream of
public history has been broken by a private or personal inciden...
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THOU ART THE MAN
2 Samuel 12:1
A year followed on his sin, but David gave no sign. He describes his
condition during that awful time in Psalms 32:3. Conscience scourged
him incessantly, but he did no...
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A year passed away. The child of Bathsheba was born. We can imagine
what that year had been to David. Bathsheba, whom in all probability
he truly loved, was with him as his wife; but it is inevitable...
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_To him. This wanton cruelty caused David to pronounce him deserving
of death; as simple theft was punished with only a four-fold
restitution, Exodus xxii. 1. Judges sometimes diminish, and at other
t...
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(1) В¶ 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. (2) The rich man had exceeding many flocks and he...
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We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first
desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that,
although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
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_CHRISTIAN CHARITY_
‘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.’
2 Samuel 12:4...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13.
The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer
acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings
go...
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AND THERE CAME A TRAVELLER UNTO THE RICH MAN,.... By which some
understand Satan, who came to David, and stirred up his lust by the
temptations that offered; who is a walker, as the word used signifie...
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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 dress...
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_There came a traveller unto the rich man_ This aptly signifies
David's roving affection, which he suffered to wander from his own
home, and to covet another man's wife. The Jewish doctors say it
repr...
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1 Nathans parable of the Ewe lambe, causeth Dauid to be his owne
Iudge.
7 Dauid, reproued by Nathan, confesseth his sinne and is pardoned.
15 Dauid mourneth and prayeth for the childe, while it liue...
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And there came a traveler unto the rich man, and he, the latter,
SPARED TO TAKE OF HIS OWN FLOCK AND OF HIS OWN HERD TO DRESS FOR THE
WAY FARING MAN THAT WAS COME UNTO HIM, BUT, in an excess of base
s...
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Nathan's Reproof and its Success...
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David did not immediately confess his sin to God, andPsalms 32:3 shows
that the Lord waited for some time at least before sending the prophet
Nathan to him, likely over nine months, for a son had been...
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1-14 God will not suffer his people to lie still in sin. By this
parable Nathan drew from David a sentence against himself. Great need
there is of prudence in giving reproofs. In his application, he...
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A TRAVELLER: this some make to be the devil, whom David gratified by
his sin; but it rather seems added for the decency of the parable....
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2 Samuel 12:1
The chief devotional exercise which turns religion into a personal
thing, which brings it home to men's business and bosoms, is
self-examination. A man's religion cannot well be one of...
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2 Samuel 12:4
The mixture of gold and clay of which our nature is composed is
nowhere so strikingly displayed as in the constant tendency of men to
conceive lofty purposes, and then to attain them by...
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CONTENTS: David's rebuke and repentance. Birth of Solomon. Ammonite
victory.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Nathan, Bathsheba, Joab.
CONCLUSION: If the believer, brought face to face with his sins
sincerel...
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2 Samuel 12:1. _The Lord sent Nathan to David._ The substance of the
mission, the visitations he foretold, the perfect accomplishment of
them, as well from that very day as in future ages, leaves not...
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_And the Lord sent Nathan unto David._
NATHAN REPROVING DAVID
I. David’s sin. David, it appears, to avenge the outrage which bad
been perpetrated on his ambassadors by Hanun, the king of the
Ammonite...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 12:1 Through the prophet NATHAN, God calls
David to account for his sins of adultery and murder (ch. 2 Samuel
11:1)....
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 12:4 The rich man in Nathan’s story TOOK
THE POOR MAN’S LAMB, just as David “took” Bathsheba (see 2
Samuel 11:4). The Lord’s special concern for
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES
2 Samuel 12:3. “WAS UNTO HIM,” etc. “The custom of keeping pet
sheep in the house, as we keep lap-dogs, is still met with among the
Arabs.” (_Keil_.) “As a poor man he...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 12:1
JEHOVAH SENT NATHAN UNTO DAVID. Though David had remained unrepentant
for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samuel 12:14 that the child was
born, yet we are not to suppose that...
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David thought that things were just going great until the prophet
Nathan came to him.
Nathan said to David, There is a man in your kingdom who is very
wealthy, had many herds, many flocks many servant...
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2 Samuel 11:3; 2 Samuel 11:4; Genesis 18:2; James 1:14...