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2 Samuel 12:3

Listen to 2 Samuel 12:3
3 en cambio, el pobre no tenía más que una sola ovejita que él mismo había comprado y criado. La ovejita creció con él y con sus hijos: comía de su plato, bebía de su vaso y dormía en su regazo. Era para ese hombre como su propia hija.

2 Samuel 12:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:3

But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb
Uriah had but one wife, who was much younger than he, called a lamb, an ewe lamb, a little one. Abarbinel thinks Uriah had been a widower; and had children by another wife, supposed in the parable, and was much older than Bathsheba:

which he had bought;
for men in those times and countries did not receive portions with their wives, but gave dowries to them, and for them:

and nourished up;
as his own flesh, as husbands should their wives, ( Ephesians 5:29 ) ;

and it grew up together with him, and with his children;
which Kimchi also supposes Uriah had by a former wife:

it did eat of his own meat, and drink of his own cup, and lay in his
bosom, and was unto him as a daughter;
all which are expressive of the care, kindness, love, and tenderness of a loving husband, whose affections are endeared to his wife, making her partaker of all he has, and to share in whatever he eats and drinks, and in his dearest embraces; and as there were instances of creatures, lambs and others, particularly tame or pet lambs, used in this way in a literal sense, to which the reference in the parable is, David had no suspicion of its being a parable. Bochart F17 has given many instances of creatures nourished and brought up in such a familiar manner.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 46. col. 521, 522.
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2 Samuel 12:3 In-Context

1 El SEÑOR envió a Natán para que hablara con David. Cuando se presentó ante David, le dijo:—Dos hombres vivían en un pueblo. El uno era rico, y el otro pobre.
2 El rico tenía muchísimas ovejas y vacas;
3 en cambio, el pobre no tenía más que una sola ovejita que él mismo había comprado y criado. La ovejita creció con él y con sus hijos: comía de su plato, bebía de su vaso y dormía en su regazo. Era para ese hombre como su propia hija.
4 Pero sucedió que un viajero llegó de visita a casa del hombre rico, y como este no quería matar ninguna de sus propias ovejas o vacas para darle de comer al huésped, le quitó al hombre pobre su única ovejita.
5 Tan grande fue el enojo de David contra aquel hombre, que le respondió a Natán:—¡Tan cierto como que el SEÑOR vive, que quien hizo esto merece la muerte!

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