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2 Samuel 12:1
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E o SENHOR enviou Nat a Davi; e, apresentando-se ele a Davi, disse-lhe: Havia numa cidade dois homens, um rico e outro pobre.
O SENHOR enviou Nat a Davi. Chegando Nat a Davi, disse-lhe: Havia numa cidade dois homens, um rico e outro pobre.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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the Lord: 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 2 Samuel 24:11-13, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 1:3
unto David: 2 Samuel 11:10-17, 2 Samuel 11:25, 2 Samuel 14:14, Isaiah 57:17, Isaiah 57:18
he came: Psalms 51:1, *title
There were: There is nothing in this parable which requires illustration. Its bent is evident; and it was wisely constructed, by not having too near a resemblance, to make David unwittingly pass sentence on himself. The parable was in David's hand what his own letter was in the hands of the brave Uriah. Nathan at length closed in with him in the application of it. In beginning with a parable he shewed his prudence, and great need there is of prudence in giving reproof; but now he speaks as an ambassador from God. He reminds David of the great things God had designed and done for him, and then charges him with a high contempt of the Divine authority, and threatens an entail of judgments upon his family for this sin. Those who despise the word and law of God, despise God himself, and will assuredly suffer for such contempt. 2 Samuel 14:5-11, Judges 9:7-15, 1 Kings 20:35-41, Isaiah 5:1-7, Matthew 21:33-45, Luke 15:11-32, Luke 16:19-31
Reciprocal: Judges 3:20 - I have 2 Samuel 5:14 - Nathan 2 Samuel 7:2 - Nathan 2 Samuel 12:25 - Nathan 1 Kings 1:8 - Nathan 1 Kings 1:10 - General 1 Kings 4:5 - son of Nathan 1 Kings 20:39 - Thy servant 2 Kings 14:9 - The thistle 1 Chronicles 3:5 - Nathan 1 Chronicles 14:4 - Nathan 1 Chronicles 17:1 - Nathan 1 Chronicles 29:29 - Nathan 2 Chronicles 9:29 - Nathan 2 Chronicles 25:7 - a man of God 2 Chronicles 25:15 - a prophet 2 Chronicles 29:25 - Nathan Psalms 32:3 - When Isaiah 39:3 - came Isaiah Jeremiah 22:1 - Go Ezekiel 17:2 - General Zechariah 12:12 - Nathan Matthew 13:3 - in Galatians 6:1 - restore
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord sent Nathan unto David,.... Quickly after the child was born begotten on Bathsheba, and when it was known and became the public talk of people, and the enemies of religion were full of it, and blasphemed on account of it, 2 Samuel 12:14; so that David was nine months or more without any true sense of his sin, his heart hardened, his graces dormant, the joys of salvation taken from him, and he without any communion with God, and having little concern about it; though perhaps he might have some pangs at times, which quickly went off; though some think he exercised repentance in a private way before; acknowledged his sin to the Lord, and had a sense of pardon, and before this time penned the thirty second and the hundred thirtieth psalms on this occasion, Psalms 32:1; but Nathan is sent to awaken and arouse him, to express a sense of his sin, and repentance for it in public, which he did by penning and publishing the fifty first psalm after Nathan had been with him, Psalms 51:1; for though the Lord may leave his people to fall into sin, and suffer them to continue therein some time, yet not always; they shall rise again through the assistance of his Spirit and grace, in the acts of repentance and faith, both in private and public:
and he came unto him, and said unto him: he came as if he had a case to lay before him, and to have justice done, and he told the story as if it was a real fact, and so David understood it:
there were two men in one city: pointing at David and Uriah, who both lived in Jerusalem:
the one rich and the other poor; David the rich man, king over all Israel; Uriah a subject, an officer in his army, comparatively poor.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Nathan came to David as if to ask his judicial decision on the case about to be submitted to him (compare 2 Samuel 14:2-11; 1 Kings 20:35-41). The circumstances of the story are exquisitely contrived to heighten the pity of David for the oppressed, and his indignation against the oppressor 1 Samuel 25:13, 1 Samuel 25:22.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XII
The Lord sends Nathan the prophet to reprove David; which he
does by means of a curious parable, 1-4.
David is led, unknowingly, to pronounce his on condemnation,
5, 6.
Nathan charges the guilt home on his conscience; and predicts
a long train of calamities which should fall on him and his
family, 7-12.
David confesses his sin; and Nathan gives him hope of God's
mercy, and foretells the death of the child born in adultery,
13, 14.
The child is taken ill; David fasts and prays for its
restoration, 15-17.
On the seventh day the child dies, and David is comforted,
18-24.
Solomon is born of Bath-sheba, 25, 26.
Joab besieges Rabbah of the Ammonites, takes the city of waters,
and sends for David to take Rabbah, 27, 28.
He comes, takes it, gets much spoil, and puts the inhabitants to
hard labor, 29-31.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII
Verse 2 Samuel 12:1. There were two men in one city — See a discourse on fables at the end of Judges 9:56, and a discourse on parabolic writing at the end of the thirteenth chapter of Matthew.
There is nothing in this parable that requires illustration; its bent is evident; and it was construed to make David, unwittingly, pass sentence on himself. It was in David's hand, what his own letters were in the hands of the brave but unfortunate Uriah.
