2 Samuel 12:2

The NET Bible®

The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The rich man had very large flocks and herds,

Hebrew Names Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

King James Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

Lexham English Bible
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

English Standard Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

New Century Version
The rich man had many sheep and cattle.

Amplified Bible
"The rich man had a very large number of flocks and herds,

New American Standard Bible
"The wealthy man had a great many flocks and herds.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen:

Legacy Standard Bible
The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Contemporary English Version
The rich man owned a lot of sheep and cattle,

Complete Jewish Bible
The rich man had vast flocks and herds;

Darby Translation
The rich had very many flocks and herds;

Easy-to-Read Version
The rich man had lots of sheep and cattle.

George Lamsa Translation
The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds;

Good News Translation
The rich man had many cattle and sheep,

Literal Translation
The rich one had flocks and very many herds.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The riche man had very many shepe and oxen:

American Standard Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

Bible in Basic English
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

King James Version (1611)
The rich man had exceeding many flockes and herds.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the rich man had very many flocks and herds.

English Revised Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

Berean Standard Bible
The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The riche man hadde ful many scheep, and oxun;

Young's Literal Translation
The rich hath flocks and herds very many;

Update Bible Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

Webster's Bible Translation
The rich [man] had very numerous flocks and herds:

World English Bible
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

New King James Version
The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds.

New Living Translation
The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.

New Life Bible
The rich man had many flocks and cattle.

New Revised Standard
The rich man had very many flocks and herds;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The, rich, man had flocks and herds exceeding many;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.

Revised Standard Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Contextual Overview

¹ 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. ² The rich man had a great many flocks and herds. 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. It used to eat his food, drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. It was just like a daughter to him. 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." 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! ⁶ Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!" ⁷ Nathan said to David, "You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I chose you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul. ⁸ I gave you your master's house, and put your master's wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well! ⁹ Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. ¹⁰ So 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!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

exceeding: 2 Samuel 12:8, 2 Samuel 3:2-5, 2 Samuel 5:13-16, 2 Samuel 15:16, Job 1:3

Cross-References

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name."

Genesis 12:4
So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

Genesis 12:8
Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord .

Genesis 12:9
Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

Genesis 12:10
There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 12:14
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:16
and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12:17
But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Genesis 12:18
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The rich [man] had exceeding many flocks and herds. In which the wealth of men lay in those times and countries; these in the parable signify David's wives and concubines, which were many; he had six wives in Hebron, and he took more wives and concubines out of Jerusalem, when he was come from Hebron, 2 Samuel 3:2; and besides his master's, or Saul's wives, given to him, 2 Samuel 12:8.