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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 12:14

只是因為你作了這事,使耶和華的仇敵大得褻瀆的機會,所以你所生的兒子必定死。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Afflictions and Adversities;   Blasphemy;   Children;   David;   Minister, Christian;   Nathan;   Repentance;   Sin;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bringing Reproach;   David;   Inconsistency;   Religion, True-False;   Reproach;   The Topic Concordance - Blasphemy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions;   Blasphemy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba;   David;   Nathan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blasphemy;   Kill, Killing;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Fly;   Nathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   David;   Intercession;   King, Kingship;   Parables;   Samuel, Books of;   Scorn, Scornful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Nathan;   Samuel, Books of;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nathan ;   Uriah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nathan;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Nathan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bath-Sheba;   Blasphemy;   How;   Nathan (1);   Samuel, Books of;   Text of the Old Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Allegory;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judge;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
只 是 你 行 这 事 , 叫 耶 和 华 的 仇 敌 大 得 亵 渎 的 机 会 , 故 此 , 你 所 得 的 孩 子 必 定 要 死 。

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

by this deed: Nehemiah 5:9, Psalms 74:10, Isaiah 52:5, Ezekiel 36:20-23, Matthew 18:7, Romans 2:24

the child: Psalms 89:31-33, Psalms 94:12, Proverbs 3:11, Proverbs 3:12, Amos 3:2, 1 Corinthians 11:32, Hebrews 12:6, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:11 - blasphemed 2 Samuel 24:12 - that I may 1 Kings 13:26 - the man Psalms 5:8 - mine Psalms 51:4 - Against Psalms 119:39 - Turn Amos 2:7 - to profane Malachi 1:12 - ye have Romans 14:13 - or 1 Corinthians 11:30 - many 1 Timothy 5:14 - give 1 Timothy 6:1 - that the Titus 2:5 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
Genesis 39:7
After some time the wife of Joseph's master began to desire Joseph, and one day she said to him, "Have sexual relations with me."
Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that if anyone looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, in his mind he has already done that sin with the woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, because by this deed,.... This complicated wickedness, adultery with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband, and occasioning the death of others:

thou hast given great reason to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme; to insult over Israel, and the God of Israel, and to magnify their own idols on account of the advantage they got when Uriah and other Israelites were slain; and to speak ill of God as a respecter of persons, who had cast off Saul and his family from the kingdom, and yet established David in it, guilty of crimes the other was not; and of the word, ways, and worship of God, and of the true religion, as all hypocrisy and deceit, when men that made such pretensions to it were guilty of such atrocious crimes; wherefore to let such see and know that the Lord did not approve of and countenance such actions, but abhorred and resented them:

the child also [that is] born unto thee shall surely die; which would be a visible testimony of God's displeasure at his sin, to all men that should hear of it, and know it; and being taken away in such a manner would be a great affliction to him, and the more as his affections were much towards the child, as appears by what follows; or otherwise the removal of it might have been considered as a mercy, since its life would have kept up the remembrance of the sin, and have been a standing reproach to him.


 
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