2 Samuel 11:27--12:12
Konteks11:27 When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. 1 She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord. 2
12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan 3 to David. When he came to David, 4 Nathan 5 said, 6 “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor. 12:2 The rich man had a great many flocks and herds. 12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. 7 It used to 8 eat his food, 9 drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. 10 It was just like a daughter to him.
12:4 “When a traveler arrived at the rich man’s home, 11 he did not want to use one of his own sheep or cattle to feed 12 the traveler who had come to visit him. 13 Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked 14 it for the man who had come to visit him.”
12:5 Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 15 12:6 Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!” 16
12:7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose 17 you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul. 12:8 I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. 18 I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well! 12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my 19 sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! 20 You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 12:10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ 12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you 21 from inside your own household! 22 Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. 23 He will have sexual relations with 24 your wives in broad daylight! 25 12:12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’” 26
2 Samuel 21:12-14
Konteks21:12 he 27 went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan 28 from the leaders 29 of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken 30 them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines 31 publicly exposed their corpses 32 after 33 they 34 had killed Saul at Gilboa.) 21:13 David 35 brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.
21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 36 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 37 for the land.
[11:27] 1 tn Heb “David sent and gathered her to his house.”
[11:27] 2 tn Heb “and the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of the
[12:1] 3 tc A few medieval Hebrew
[12:1] 4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[12:1] 5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[12:1] 6 tn The Hebrew text repeats “to him.”
[12:3] 8 tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.
[12:3] 9 tn Heb “from his morsel.”
[12:3] 10 tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”
[12:4] 11 tn Heb “came to the rich man.” In the translation “arrived at the rich man’s home” has been used for stylistic reasons.
[12:4] 12 tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”
[12:4] 13 tn Heb “who had come to him” (also a second time later in this verse). The word “visit” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.
[12:4] 14 tn Heb “and prepared.”
[12:5] 15 tn Heb “the man doing this [is] a son of death.” See 1 Sam 20:31 for another use of this expression, which must mean “he is as good as dead” or “he deserves to die,” as 1 Sam 20:32 makes clear.
[12:6] 16 tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek translation has here “sevenfold” rather than “fourfold,” a reading that S. R. Driver thought probably to be the original reading (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 291). However, Exod 22:1 [21:37 HT] specifies fourfold repayment for a stolen sheep, which is consistent with 2 Sam 12:6. Some
[12:6] tn Heb “the lamb he must repay fourfold because he did this thing and because he did not have compassion.”
[12:8] 18 tn Heb “and the wives of your lord into your chest [or “lap”].” The words “I put” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.
[12:9] 19 tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”
[12:9] 20 tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.
[12:11] 21 tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”
[12:11] 22 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”
[12:11] 24 tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”
[12:11] 25 tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”
[12:12] 26 tn Heb “and before the sun.”
[21:12] 27 tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.
[21:12] 28 tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.
[21:12] 31 tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).
[21:12] 32 tn Heb “had hung them.”
[21:12] 33 tn Heb “in the day.”
[21:12] 34 tn Heb “Philistines.”
[21:13] 35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:14] 36 tc Many medieval Hebrew
[21:14] 37 tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).
