2 Samuel 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!
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- 1 Sam 26:16 : 16 This failure on your part isn’t good! As surely as the LORD lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the LORD’s chosen one, are as good as dead! Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
- Luke 6:41-42 : 41 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 42 How can you say to your brother,‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can 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 The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
- Gen 38:24 : 24 After three months Judah was told,“Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant.” Judah said,“Bring her out and let her be burned!”
- 1 Sam 14:39 : 39 For as surely as the LORD, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything.
- 1 Sam 20:31 : 31 For as long as this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!”
- 1 Sam 25:21-22 : 21 Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil. 22 God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”
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6Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”
7Nathan said to David,“You are that man! This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘I chose you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
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1Nathan the Prophet Confronts David So the LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to David, Nathan said,“There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
2The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.
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12Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’”
13Then David exclaimed to Nathan,“I have sinned against the LORD!” Nathan replied to David,“Yes, and the LORD has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.
14Nonetheless, because you have treated the LORD with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”
15Then Nathan went to his home. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.
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4“When a traveler arrived at the rich man’s home, he did not want to use one of his own sheep or cattle to feed the traveler who had come to visit him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked it for the man who had come to visit him.”
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14David replied to him,“How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.
16David said to him,“Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”
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15Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.
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17Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.
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2Nathan said to David,“You should do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you.”
3That night God told Nathan,
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9But David said to Abishai,“Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the LORD’s chosen one and remain guiltless?”
10David went on to say,“As the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
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12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.
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4That night the LORD’s message came to Nathan,
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9Why have you shown contempt for the LORD’s decrees by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10So 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!’
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17When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the LORD,“Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep– what have they done? Attack me and my family.”
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11Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”
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16But the king said,“You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
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5He risked his life when he struck down the Philistine and the LORD gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
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21Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.
22God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”
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23King Solomon then swore an oath by the LORD,“May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!
24Now, as certainly as the LORD lives(he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
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17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.
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13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
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12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
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21Now King David heard about all these things and was very angry.
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27The soldiers told him what had been promised, saying,“This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”
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18On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said,“While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”
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21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.
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21Abishai son of Zeruiah replied,“For this should not Shimei be put to death? After all, he cursed the LORD’s anointed!”
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24Nathan said,“My master, O king, did you announce,‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?
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10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
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31The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.
32May the LORD punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he– Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
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10David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
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38After about ten days the LORD struck Nabal down and he died.
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26“Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.
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34Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives– he who has prevented me from harming you– if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
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17David said to God,“Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! As for these sheep– what have they done? O LORD my God, attack me and my family, but remove the plague from your people!”
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10The LORD was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. He died right there before God.
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21If a decision is not made, when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, my son Solomon and I will be considered state criminals.”
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18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.