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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 12:11

耶和華這樣說:‘看哪!我必從你家中興起禍患攻擊你;我要在你的眼前把你的妃嬪拿去賜給別人。他要在光天化日之下與她們同床。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   David;   Homicide;   Minister, Christian;   Nathan;   Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - David;   Family;   Home;   Trouble;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Prophets;   Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba;   Concubine;   David;   Nathan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Kingship;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Nathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - David;   King, Kingship;   Parables;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Nathan;   Samuel, Books of;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Absalom ;   Nathan ;   Uriah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nathan;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'than;   Uri'ah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Nathan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nathan (1);   Samuel, Books of;   Sin (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Allegory;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judge;   Rizpah;   Satire;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 如 此 说 : 我 必 从 你 家 中 兴 起 祸 患 攻 击 你 ; 我 必 在 你 眼 前 把 你 的 妃 嫔 赐 给 别 人 , 他 在 日 光 之 下 就 与 他 们 同 寝 。

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to David, he said, "There were two men in a city. One was rich, but the other was poor. 2 The rich man had many sheep and cattle. 3 But the poor man had nothing except one little female lamb he had bought. The poor man fed the lamb, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup and slept in his arms. The lamb was like a daughter to him. 4 "Then a traveler stopped to visit the rich man. The rich man wanted to feed the traveler, but he didn't want to take one of his own sheep or cattle. Instead, he took the lamb from the poor man and cooked it for his visitor." 5 David became very angry at the rich man. He said to Nathan, "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this should die! 6 He must pay for the lamb four times for doing such a thing. He had no mercy!" 7 Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘I appointed you king of Israel and saved you from Saul. 8 I gave you his kingdom and his wives. And I made you king of Israel and Judah. And if that had not been enough, I would have given you even more. 9 So why did you ignore the Lord 's command? Why did you do what he says is wrong? You killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and took his wife to be your wife! 10 Now there will always be people in your family who will die by a sword, because you did not respect me; you took the wife of Uriah the Hittite for yourself!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will raise: 2 Samuel 13:1-14, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 13:29, 2 Samuel 15:6, 2 Samuel 15:10

I will take: That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented. 2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22, Deuteronomy 28:30, Ezekiel 14:9, Ezekiel 20:25, Ezekiel 20:26, Hosea 4:13, Hosea 4:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:9 - a great Genesis 30:4 - to wife 2 Samuel 12:8 - thy master's wives 2 Samuel 13:14 - forced her 2 Samuel 15:16 - ten women 2 Samuel 15:25 - Carry back 2 Samuel 16:11 - Behold 2 Samuel 24:1 - moved 1 Kings 21:19 - In the place Job 20:14 - his meat Job 31:10 - and let Job 34:26 - in Psalms 71:20 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.
Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.
Genesis 26:7
His wife Rebekah was very beautiful, and the men of that place asked Isaac about her. Isaac said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to tell them she was his wife. He thought they might kill him so they could have her.
Genesis 29:17
Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was very beautiful.
2 Samuel 11:2
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. While he was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom, understanding, or advice that can succeed against the Lord .
Song of Solomon 1:14
My lover is like a bunch of flowers from the vineyards at En Gedi.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord,.... For what he said was not of himself, but under a spirit of prophecy:

behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house: that is, evil persons, who should be guilty of evil things, and that as a chastisement of him for the sins he had committed, and those out of his own family, as Amnon and Absalom:

and I will take thy wives before thine eyes; which is so expressed, because it was done in his lifetime, and he knowing it, but not able to hinder it, though he did not, strictly speaking, see it with his eyes:

and give [them] unto thy neighbour; or friend, meaning his son Absalom, as they were:

and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun; pointing to the sun in the firmament, and which might be then shining in the room where they were: and which is represented by Homer u as seeing all things, "and eyes" are ascribed to it here in the original; the meaning is, that this fact should be done in the daytime, openly and publicly, and was fulfilled, when by the advice of Ahithophel a tent was spread on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel, 2 Samuel 16:22.

u Odyss. 11. ver. 119. & 12. ver. 380.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references. In both the points of David’s crime the retribution was according to his sin. His adultery was punished by Absalom’s outrage, his murder by the bloodshed of domestic fights, which cost the lives of at least three of his favorite sons, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 12:11. I will take thy wives — That is, In the course of my providence I will permit all this to be done. Had David been faithful, God, by his providence, would have turned all this aside; but now, by his sin, he has made that providence his enemy which before was his friend.


 
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