2 Samuel 12:2

Brenton's Septuagint

And the rich man had very many flocks and herds.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The rich man had very large flocks and herds,

Hebrew Names Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

King James Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

Lexham English Bible
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

English Standard Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

New Century Version
The rich man had many sheep and cattle.

New English Translation
The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Amplified Bible
"The rich man had a very large number of flocks and herds,

New American Standard Bible
"The wealthy man had a great many flocks and herds.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen:

Legacy Standard Bible
The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Contemporary English Version
The rich man owned a lot of sheep and cattle,

Complete Jewish Bible
The rich man had vast flocks and herds;

Darby Translation
The rich had very many flocks and herds;

Easy-to-Read Version
The rich man had lots of sheep and cattle.

George Lamsa Translation
The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds;

Good News Translation
The rich man had many cattle and sheep,

Literal Translation
The rich one had flocks and very many herds.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The riche man had very many shepe and oxen:

American Standard Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

Bible in Basic English
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

King James Version (1611)
The rich man had exceeding many flockes and herds.

English Revised Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

Berean Standard Bible
The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The riche man hadde ful many scheep, and oxun;

Young's Literal Translation
The rich hath flocks and herds very many;

Update Bible Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

Webster's Bible Translation
The rich [man] had very numerous flocks and herds:

World English Bible
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

New King James Version
The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds.

New Living Translation
The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.

New Life Bible
The rich man had many flocks and cattle.

New Revised Standard
The rich man had very many flocks and herds;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The, rich, man had flocks and herds exceeding many;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.

Revised Standard Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David; and he went in to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. ² And the rich man had very many flocks and herds. ³ But the poor man had only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; an it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter. ⁴ And a traveller came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his flocks and of his herds, to dress for the traveller that came to him; and he took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that came to him. ⁵ And David was greatly moved with anger against the man; and David said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man that did this thing shall surely die. ⁶ And he shall restore the lamb seven-fold, because he has not spared. ⁷ And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man that has done this. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee to be king over Israel, and I rescued thee out the hand of Saul; ⁸ and I gave thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord into thy bosom, and I gave to thee the house of Israel and Juda; and if that had been little, I would have given thee yet more. ⁹ Why hast thou set at nought the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? thou hast slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and thou hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever, because thou has set me at nought, and thou hast taken the wife of Urias the Chettite, to be thy wife.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

exceeding: 2 Samuel 12:8, 2 Samuel 3:2-5, 2 Samuel 5:13-16, 2 Samuel 15:16, Job 1:3

Cross-References

Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:4
And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan.

Genesis 12:6
And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land.

Genesis 12:8
And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Baethel, and there he pitched his tent in Baethel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

Genesis 12:14
And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt—the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful—

Genesis 12:16
And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and men-servants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels.

Genesis 12:17
And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12:18
And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The rich [man] had exceeding many flocks and herds. In which the wealth of men lay in those times and countries; these in the parable signify David's wives and concubines, which were many; he had six wives in Hebron, and he took more wives and concubines out of Jerusalem, when he was come from Hebron, 2 Samuel 3:2; and besides his master's, or Saul's wives, given to him, 2 Samuel 12:8.