2 Samuele 12:5

5 Allora Davide si accese grandemente nell’ira contro a quell’uomo, e disse a Natan: Come vive il Signore, colui che ha fatto questo ha meritata la morte;

2 Samuele 12:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:5

And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man
That had done this, taking it for a real fact:

and he said to Nathan, [as] the Lord liveth, the man that hath done
this [thing] shall surely die;
which be said in the transport of his wrath and fury; otherwise a thief, according to the law of Moses, was not to be put to death, but to make restitution; and if he was not able to make it, then to be sold, but he was not to die for it; but David thought the crime was so greatly aggravated by being done by a rich man, and by the loss the poor man sustained, it being his all, and the fact, in all its circumstances, so cruel and barbarous, that the guilty person ought to die: how much more vehemently, and indeed with justice, would he have passed the sentence of death on him, or condemned him to it, had it been put in the parable, that the rich man not only took the poor man's ewe lamb, but killed the poor man himself? but this Nathan left out, that David might not take his meaning, as Abarbinel thinks, who then would have been upon his guard, and not have condemned himself; and hereby also Nathan had this advantage against him, that if this man deserved to die, who had only taken the poor man's ewe lamb, then how much more ought he to die, who had not only committed adultery with Bathsheba, but had slain Uriah?

2 Samuele 12:5 In-Context

3 ma il povero non avea se non una sola piccola agnella, la quale egli avea comperata, e l’avea nudrita, ed ella era cresciuta con lui e coi suoi figliuoli, mangiando de’ bocconi di esso, e bevendo nella sua coppa, e giacendogli in seno; e gli era a guisa di figliuola.

4 Ora, essendo venuto a quell’uomo ricco un viandante in casa, egli risparmiò il suo grosso e minuto bestiame, e non ne prese per apparecchiarlo al viandante che gli era venuto in casa; ma prese l’agnella di quel povero uomo, e l’apparecchiò a colui che gli era venuto in casa.

5 Allora Davide si accese grandemente nell’ira contro a quell’uomo, e disse a Natan: Come vive il Signore, colui che ha fatto questo ha meritata la morte;

6 ed oltre a ciò, conviene che per quella agnella ne paghi quattro; per ammenda di ciò ch’egli ha commesso questo fatto, e ch’egli non ha risparmiata quell’agnella.

7 Allora Natan disse a Davide: Tu sei quell’uomo. Così ha detto il Signore Iddio d’Israele: Io ti ho unto per re sopra Israele, ed io ti ho riscosso dalle mani di Saulle.