2 Samuel 12:3

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. ¹  It used to ²  eat his food, ³  drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. ⁴  It was just like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12:9

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ⁵  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ⁶  You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

[12:3]  ¹ tn Heb “his sons.”

[12:3]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “from his morsel.”

[12:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”

[12:9]  ⁵ tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

[12:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.