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 20:35–41A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him.
• Ps 51:1–19For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• 1 Kgs 18:1After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
• 2 Kgs 1:3But Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?
• Matt 21:33–45“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
• 2 Sam 7:17Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
• 2 Sam 14:14For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
• 2 Sam 11:25Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
• Judg 9:7–15When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
• Isa 57:17–18I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
• Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• 2 Sam 14:5–11The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
• 2 Sam 24:11–13When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
• 1 Kgs 13:1Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Beth El; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
• Luke 15:11–32He said, “A certain man had two sons.
• 2 Sam 11:10–17When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
• 2 Sam 7:1–5When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
• Luke 16:19–31“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

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