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 20:35–41And 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.
• Ps 51:1–19Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
• 1 Kgs 18:1And 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.
• 2 Kgs 1:3But 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?
• Matt 21:33–45Hear 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:
• 2 Sam 7:17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
• 2 Sam 14:14For 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.
• 2 Sam 11:25Then 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.
• Judg 9:7–15And 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.
• Isa 57:17–18For 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 5:1–7Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
• 2 Sam 14:5–11And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
• 2 Sam 24:11–13For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
• 1 Kgs 13:1And, 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.
• Luke 15:11–32And he said, A certain man had two sons:
• 2 Sam 11:10–17And 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?
• 2 Sam 7:1–5And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
• Luke 16:19–31There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

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