The LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor. 1Ki 20:35-41Psa 51:1-191Ki 13:11Ki 18:12Ki 1:32Sa 11:10-172Sa 11:252Sa 14:14 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, 2Sa 12:82Sa 15:162Sa 3:2-52Sa 5:13-16Job 1:3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him. 2Sa 11:3Mic 7:5Deu 13:6Pro 5:18-19 A traveler came to the rich man, and he didn’t want to take of his own flock and of his own herd to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” Jas 1:142Sa 11:3-4Gen 18:2-7
David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die! 1Sa 26:16Gen 38:24Rom 2:11Sa 25:21-22Luk 6:41-421Sa 14:391Sa 20:31Luk 9:55 He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity!” Exo 22:1Luk 19:8Pro 6:31Jas 2:13
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 1Sa 16:13Mat 14:142Sa 22:11Ki 18:181Ki 20:421Sa 13:131Sa 15:171Sa 18:21 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things. Psa 84:112Sa 9:7Rom 8:322Sa 12:112Sa 2:42Sa 5:52Sa 7:191Sa 15:19 Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 1Sa 15:19Psa 90:81Sa 15:23Amo 2:4Jer 18:10Psa 139:1-22Sa 11:4Exo 20:13-14 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’ 2Sa 18:14-15Mat 26:52Rom 2:41Ki 2:23-251Sa 2:301Th 4:82Sa 13:28-292Sa 18:33
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 2Sa 16:21-22Deu 28:302Sa 13:1-142Sa 13:28-292Sa 15:102Sa 15:6Ezk 14:9Ezk 20:25-26 For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’” 1Co 4:52Sa 16:22Ecc 12:14Luk 12:1-22Sa 11:4-15
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Pro 28:132Sa 24:10Psa 51:4Zec 3:4Luk 15:21Psa 32:1-5Mic 7:18-191Sa 15:30
Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die. However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.” Rom 2:24Isa 52:5Psa 89:31-33Heb 12:6Pro 3:11-12Psa 94:12Rev 3:191Co 11:32 Then Nathan departed to his house. 1Sa 25:38Psa 104:291Sa 26:102Ch 13:202Ki 15:5Act 12:23Deu 32:39
The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he was very sick. David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground. 2Sa 13:311Ki 21:272Sa 12:22Act 9:9Est 4:16Isa 22:12Jon 3:9Psa 50:15 The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them. 2Sa 3:351Sa 28:23 On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself if we tell him that the child is dead?” Num 20:15
But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”
They said, “He is dead.”
Then David arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the LORD’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him and he ate. Job 1:20Rut 3:3Lam 3:39-412Sa 7:18Ecc 9:8Job 2:10Mat 6:172Sa 6:17 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.” 1Co 2:15
He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ Isa 38:1-3Isa 38:5Jon 3:9-10Jol 1:14Jol 2:14Jon 1:6Amo 5:15Jas 4:9-10 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.” Gen 37:35Job 30:23Luk 23:43Job 7:8-10
David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him; Mat 1:61Ch 28:5-61Ch 22:9-101Ch 29:11Ch 3:52Sa 7:12 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, 1 for the LORD’s sake. 2Sa 7:4Neh 13:261Ki 1:111Ki 1:232Sa 12:1-14Mat 17:5Mat 3:17
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 1Ch 20:1-3Deu 3:112Sa 11:25 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters. 2Sa 11:1Deu 3:11Ezk 21:20 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.” Jhn 7:18
David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it. He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent 2 of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city. 1Ch 20:2 He brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them go to the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. 1Ch 20:32Sa 8:2Amo 1:3Psa 21:8-9