2 Samuel 12:3-5

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³But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children.^[a] It used to^[b] eat his food,^[c] drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms.^[d] It was just like a daughter to him.

⁴“When a traveler arrived at the rich man’s home,^[e] he did not want to use one of his own sheep or cattle to feed^[f] the traveler who had come to visit him.^[g] Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked^[h] it for the man who had come to visit him.”

⁵Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!^[i]

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2 Samuel 12:3 tn Heb “his sons.”
2 Samuel 12:3 tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.
2 Samuel 12:3 tn Heb “from his morsel.”
2 Samuel 12:3 tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lie.”
2 Samuel 12:4 tn Heb “came to the rich man.” In the translation “arrived at the rich man’s home” has been used for stylistic reasons.
2 Samuel 12:4 tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”
2 Samuel 12:4 tn Heb “who had come to him” (also a second time later in this verse). The word “visit” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.
2 Samuel 12:4 tn Heb “and prepared.”
2 Samuel 12:5 tn Heb “the man doing this [is] a son of death.” See 1 Sam 20:31 for another use of this expression, which must mean “he is as good as dead” or “he deserves to die,” as 1 Sam 20:32 makes clear.

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