Verse 2 Samuel 12:5. _THE MAN - SHALL SURELY DIE_] Literally בן מות _ben maveth_, "he is a son of death," a very _bad man_, and one who _deserves to_ _die_. But the law did not sentence a sheep-steal...
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...
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...
SHALL SURELY DIE. Hebrew is. son of death. liable to die....
_shall surely die_ Or, IS WORTHY TO DIE; lit. _is a son of death_. Cp. 1 Samuel 20:31; 1 Samuel 26:16....
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...
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...
_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:_ The man that hath done this thing shall surely...
12:5 death; (a-28) Lit. 'is a son of death.'...
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....
SHALL SURELY DIE] David's impulsive temper breaks out again: cp. 1 Samuel 25:22....
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...
WAS GREATLY KINDLED. — David’s generous impulses had not been extinguished by his sin, nor his warm sense of justice; his naturally quick temper (1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Samuel 25:22; 1 Samuel 25:33) at onc...
וַ יִּֽחַר ־אַ֥ף דָּוִ֛ד בָּ † אִ֖ישׁ...
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...
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...
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...
(5) 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: (6) And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, be...
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...
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...
AND DAVID'S ANGER WAS GREATLY KINDLED AGAINST THE MAN,.... That had done this, taking it for a real fact: AND HE SAID TO NATHAN, [AS] THE LORD LIVETH, THE MAN THAT HATH DONE THIS [THING] SHALL SURELY...
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: Ver. 5. And David's anger was greatly kindled...
_David's anger was greatly kindled_, &c. So many base and aggravated circumstances appeared to him to attend it, that he thought it deserving of capital punishment. _The man shall surely die_ This see...
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...
And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, as Nathan had intended for the sake of the effective application of his parable; AND HE SAID TO NATHAN, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THE MAN THAT HATH DON...
Nathan's Reproof and its Success...
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...
SHALL SURELY DIE: Or, is worthy to die...
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...
This seems to be more than the fact deserved, or than he had commission to inflict for it, EXODUS 22:1. But it is observable, that David now, when he was most indulgent to himself, and to his own sin,...
2 Samuel 12:5 Davids H1732 anger H639 greatly H3966 aroused H2734 (H8799) man H376 said H559 (H8799) Nathan...
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...
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...
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...
_David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man._ THE SELF-DECEPTION OF SIN You do not know the strength and poison of sin till you resist it. It was this want of resistance that bed David into su...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 14:39; 1 Samuel 20:31; 1 Samuel 25:21; 1 Samuel 25:22;...
Is worthy to die — This seems to be more than the fact deserved, or than he had commission to inflict for it, Exodus 22:1. But it is observable, that David now when he was most indulgent to himself, a...