And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this [a]shall surely die! And he shall restore (A)fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:5 deserves to die, lit. is a son of death

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