Then David said to the messenger, So you shall say to Joab, Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city and overthrow it. And you encourage him.
2 Samuel 12:1 - Modern King James Version And Jehovah sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and one 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. |
Then David said to the messenger, So you shall say to Joab, Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city and overthrow it. And you encourage him.
For we must all die, and we are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take a life, but has devised plans so that the outcast is not cast out from Him.
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and David's mighty men, were not with Adonijah.
And behold, a man of God came out of Judah, by the Word of Jehovah, to Bethel. And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
And it happened after many days the Word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab. And I will send rain on the earth.
Arise, go down to meet Ahab the king of Israel in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to possess it.
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers, and Zabud the son of Nathan was the minister and the king's friend.
But the angel of Jehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise! Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, Is it not because no God is in Israel that you go to ask of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
And the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And where did they come from to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, from Babylon.