2 Samuel 12:2

Douay-Rheims Bible

The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.

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.

New English Translation
The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

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;

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 And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. ² The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen. ³ But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter. ⁴ And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who was come to him, but took the poor man’s ewe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. ⁵ And David’s anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a child of death. ⁶ He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity. ⁷ And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul, ⁸ And gave thee thy master’s house and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things be little, I shall add far greater things unto thee. ⁹ Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to be thy wife.

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 them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:4
So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

Genesis 12:8
And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

Genesis 12:10
And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

Genesis 12:14
And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:16
And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.

Genesis 12:17
But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12:18
And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy 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.