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“Now a traveler came to visit the rich man, but he wasn’t willing to take anything from his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had arrived. Instead, he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the visitor.”

David got very angry at the man, and he said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the one who did this is demonic![a] He must restore the ewe lamb seven times over[b] because he did this and because he had no compassion.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:5 Or as good as dead; MT a son of death
  2. 2 Samuel 12:6 LXX; MT fourfold (cf Exod 22:1)

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