2 Samuel 12:4

The Scriptures 1998

“And a traveller 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.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:3

“But the poor one had only one little ewe lamb which he had bought and kept alive. And it grew up with him and with his children together. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom. And it was like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12:5

And the wrath of Dawiḏ

James 1:14

But each one is enticed when he is drawn away by his own desires and trapped.

Judges 19:17

And when he lifted up his eyes, he saw the traveller in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”