2 Samuel 12:5

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David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

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  • 1 Sam 26:16 : 16 What you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, you deserve to die because you did not guard your lord, the LORD's anointed. Now, look around! Where are the king's spear and the jar of water that were near his head?"
  • Luke 6:41-42 : 41 Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
  • Luke 9:55 : 55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them.
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore, you have no excuse, O person, whoever you are who judges. For when you judge someone else, you condemn yourself, because you practice the same things you judge others for.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 About three months later, Judah was told, 'Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant as a result.' Judah said, 'Bring her out and let her be burned!'
  • 1 Sam 14:39 : 39 As surely as the Lord, who saves Israel, lives—even if it is my son Jonathan—he must die.' But no one among the people said a word.
  • 1 Sam 20:31 : 31 As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!'
  • 1 Sam 25:21-22 : 21 David had just been saying, "It’s been for nothing that I guarded everything belonging to this man in the wilderness. Nothing was missing, yet he has repaid me evil for good. 22 May God punish David’s enemies severely if by morning I leave even one male of all who belong to him alive."

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  • 2 Sam 12:6-7
    2 verses
    85%

    6He must pay back four times the price of the lamb because he did such a thing and had no pity!

    7Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 12:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1The Lord sent Nathan to David. When Nathan arrived, he said to him, "There were two men in a city. One was rich, and the other was poor."

    2The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

  • 2 Sam 12:12-15
    4 verses
    80%

    12You did it in secret, but I will make this happen in front of all Israel and in broad daylight.'

    13Then David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the Lord.' Nathan replied, 'The Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.

    14However, because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will surely die.'

    15After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became ill.

  • 2 Sam 12:4
    79%

    4Now, a traveler came to the rich man, but he was unwilling to take from his own flock or herd to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for his guest.

  • 2 Sam 1:14-16
    3 verses
    75%

    14David asked him, 'How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?'

    15Then David called one of his young men and said, 'Come here and strike him down.' So he struck him, and he died.

    16David said to him, 'Your blood is on your own head, because your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the LORD's anointed.’'

  • 1 Chr 17:15
    74%

    15Nathan relayed all these words and this entire vision to David.

  • 2 Sam 7:17
    74%

    17Nathan spoke all these words and this entire vision to David.

  • 1 Chr 17:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Nathan replied to David, "Do whatever is in your heart, for God is with you."

    3But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

  • 1 Sam 26:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

    10David also said, "As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

  • Exod 21:12
    73%

    12Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.

  • 2 Sam 7:4
    72%

    4But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

  • 2 Sam 12:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in His eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites!

    10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

  • 2 Sam 24:17
    72%

    17When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, "I alone have sinned; I, the shepherd, have acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand fall upon me and my family."

  • 2 Sam 4:11
    71%

    11How much more, then, when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed! Should I not now demand his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    71%

    16The king said, 'You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and your whole family.'

  • 1 Sam 19:5
    71%

    5He risked his life to kill the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. So why would you sin by shedding innocent blood by killing David without cause?

  • 1 Sam 25:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21David had just been saying, "It’s been for nothing that I guarded everything belonging to this man in the wilderness. Nothing was missing, yet he has repaid me evil for good.

    22May God punish David’s enemies severely if by morning I leave even one male of all who belong to him alive."

  • 1 Kgs 2:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23Then King Solomon took an oath by the LORD: 'May God punish me ever so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his own life!

    24'And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the one who has established me, seated me on the throne of my father David, and made me a dynasty as He promised—Adonijah shall be put to death today!'

  • Lev 24:17
    71%

    17Anyone who takes the life of another person must be put to death.

  • Ezek 18:13
    71%

    13He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a person live? He will not! Because he has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death, and his blood will be on his own head.

  • Deut 19:12
    71%

    12the elders of his city shall send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

  • 2 Sam 13:21
    70%

    21When King David heard all of this, he was furious.

  • 1 Sam 17:27
    70%

    27The people repeated to him what they had been saying: 'This is what will be done for the man who kills him.'

  • 2 Sam 12:18
    70%

    18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, 'While the child was still alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

  • Lev 24:21
    70%

    21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a person must be put to death.

  • 2 Sam 19:21
    70%

    21'For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. But today I have come here as the first of the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.'

  • 1 Kgs 1:24
    70%

    24Then Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you declared that Adonijah will reign after you and sit on your throne?

  • Lev 20:10
    69%

    10If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
    2 verses
    69%

    31The king said to him, 'Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and my father's house the guilt of the blood that Joab shed without cause.

    32The LORD will bring back his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than himself—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—killing them with the sword without my father David knowing it.

  • 2 Sam 24:10
    69%

    10David's heart was troubled after he had numbered the people. He said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, please take away the guilt of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

  • 1 Sam 25:38
    69%

    38About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

  • 1 Sam 25:26
    69%

    26Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, the Lord has kept you from shedding blood and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those intent on harming my lord be as foolish as Nabal.

  • 1 Sam 25:34
    69%

    34Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried to come to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning.

  • 1 Chr 21:17
    69%

    17David said to God, "Was it not I who gave the command to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? LORD my God, let Your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on Your people."

  • 1 Chr 13:10
    69%

    10The anger of the LORD burned against Uzza, and He struck him down because he had reached out to the ark. Uzza died there in the presence of God.

  • 1 Kgs 1:21
    68%

    21Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be treated as offenders.

  • Ezek 18:18
    68%

    18But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.