2 Samuel 12:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now a traveller came to the rich man, but the rich man could not bring himself to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveller who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.

Cross References

James 1:14

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.

Judges 19:17

When he looked up and saw the traveller in the city square, the old man asked, ‘Where are you going, and where do you come from? ’

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meagre food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12:5

David was infuriated with the man and said to Nathan, ‘As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!