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2 Samuel 12:3
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- CondensedContextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
one little: 2 Samuel 11:3, Proverbs 5:18, Proverbs 5:19
meat: Heb. morsel
lay in his: Deuteronomy 13:6, Micah 7:5
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:54 - and toward 1 Kings 1:2 - lie John 13:23 - leaning Ephesians 5:25 - love
Cross-References
seeing that Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the eretz will be blessed in him?
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.
Abraham's children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.
since Abraham is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?
since Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb,.... Uriah had but one wife, who was much younger than he, called a lamb, an ewe lamb, a little one. Abarbinel thinks Uriah had been a widower; and had children by another wife, supposed in the parable, and was much older than Bathsheba:
which he had bought; for men in those times and countries did not receive portions with their wives, but gave dowries to them, and for them:
and nourished up; as his own flesh, as husbands should their wives, Ephesians 5:29;
and it grew up together with him, and with his children; which Kimchi also supposes Uriah had by a former wife:
it did eat of his own meat, and drink of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter; all which are expressive of the care, kindness, love, and tenderness of a loving husband, whose affections are endeared to his wife, making her partaker of all he has, and to share in whatever he eats and drinks, and in his dearest embraces; and as there were instances of creatures, lambs and others, particularly tame or pet lambs, used in this way in a literal sense, to which the reference in the parable is, David had no suspicion of its being a parable. Bochart q has given many instances of creatures nourished and brought up in such a familiar manner.
q Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 46. col. 521, 522.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Samuel 12:3. And lay in his bosom — This can only mean that this lamb was what we call a pet or favourite in the family, else the circumstance would be very unnatural, and most likely would have prevented David from making the application which he did, as otherwise it would have appeared absurd. It is the only part of this parable which is at variance with nature and fact.