2 Samuel 12:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

American Standard Version (1901)

² The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

Common English Bible

² The rich man had a lot of sheep and cattle,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The wealthy man had very many sheep and oxen.

2 Samuel 12:2 Cross References

Job 1:3

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

2 Samuel 15:16

So the king left, followed by all his household, except ten concubines whom he left behind to look after the house.

2 Samuel 12:8

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 had been too little, I would have added as much more.

2 Samuel 12:1

and the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meager fare and drink from his cup and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.