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2 Samuel · read by Aaron Hurst
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2 Samuel 12
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The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for his guest."Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: "As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over."Read from ESV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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Then Nathan said to David, "You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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I gave your master's house to you and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family
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Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.Read from KJV · Suffering Love: Nonresistance in Marriage and Family