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2 Samuel 12:6-8
New English Translation
2 Samuel 12:6-8
New English Translation
6 Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”[a]
7 Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘I chose[b] 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.[c] 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!
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- 2 Samuel 12:6 tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek translation has here “sevenfold” rather than “fourfold,” a reading that S. R. Driver thought probably to be the original reading (S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 291). However, Exod 22:1 [21:37 HT] specifies fourfold repayment for a stolen sheep, which is consistent with 2 Sam 12:6. Some mss of the Targum and the Syriac Peshitta exaggerate the idea to “fortyfold.”tn Heb “the lamb he must repay fourfold because he did this thing and because he did not have compassion.”
- 2 Samuel 12:7 tn Heb “anointed.”
- 2 Samuel 12:8 tn Heb “and the wives of your lord into your chest [or “lap”].” The words “I put” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.
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