David told the messenger, ‘Say this to Joab: “Don’t let this matter upset you because the sword devours all alike. Intensify your fight against the city and demolish it.” Encourage him.’
2 Samuel 12:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he arrived, he said to him: There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition AND THE Lord sent Nathan to David. He came and said to him, There were two men in a city, one rich and the other poor. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. Common English Bible So the LORD sent Nathan to David. When Nathan arrived he said, “There were two men in the same city, one rich, one poor. Catholic Public Domain Version Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And when he had come to him, he said to him: "Two men were in one city: one wealthy, and the other poor. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And when he was come to him he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. |
David told the messenger, ‘Say this to Joab: “Don’t let this matter upset you because the sword devours all alike. Intensify your fight against the city and demolish it.” Encourage him.’
We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.
but the priest Zadok, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the prophet Nathan, Shimei, Rei, and David’s royal guard , did not side with Adonijah.
A man of God came, however, from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord while Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense.
After a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year: ‘Go and present yourself to Ahab. I will send rain on the surface of the land.’
‘Get up and go to meet King Ahab of Israel, who is in Samaria. He’s in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.
Azariah son of Nathan, in charge of the district governors; Zabud son of Nathan, a priest and adviser to the king;
But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, ‘Go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to enquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
As for the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, note that they are written in the Events of the Seer Samuel, the Events of the Prophet Nathan, and the Events of the Seer Gad,
Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, ‘What did these men say, and where did they come to you from? ’ Hezekiah replied, ‘They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.’