2 Samuel 12:1

The LORD sends the prophet Nathan, who tells David a parable of two men, one rich and one poor. God graciously moves to confront David's sin.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Kgs 20:35–41Meanwhile, by the word of the LORD, one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me, please!” But the man refused to strike him.
• Ps 51:1–19For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
• 1 Kgs 18:1After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
• 2 Kgs 1:3But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
• Matt 21:33–45Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
• 2 Sam 7:17So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision.
• 2 Sam 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
• 2 Sam 11:25Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
• Judg 9:7–15When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.
• Isa 57:17–18I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
• Isa 5:1–7I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
• 2 Sam 14:5–11“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
• 2 Sam 24:11–13When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
• 1 Kgs 13:1Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
• Luke 15:11–32Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons.
• 2 Sam 11:10–17And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
• 2 Sam 7:1–5After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
• Luke 16:19–31Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

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