2 Samuel 12:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ And Jehovah sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said to him, There were two men in one city: the one rich and the other poor.

⁷ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice and cried out and said to them, Listen to me, you* men of Shechem, that God may listen to you*.
⁸ The trees went forth a time to anoint a king over them. And they said to the olive tree, Reign over us. ⁹ But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness with which by me they honor God and man and go to wave to and fro over the trees? ¹⁰ And the trees said to the fig tree, You come and reign over us. ¹¹ But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
¹² And the trees said to the vine, You come and reign over us. ¹³ And the vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
¹⁴ Then all the trees said to the bramble, You come and reign over us. ¹⁵ And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you* anoint me king over you*, then come and take refuge in my shade and if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

¹ And it happened, when the king dwelt in his house and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies all around, ² that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. ³ And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart, for Jehovah is with you.
⁴ And it happened the same night, that the word of Jehovah came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go and tell my servant David, Jehovah says thus, Shall you build a house for me to dwell in?

¹⁷ According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

¹⁰ And when they had told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?
¹¹ And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah, abide in booths and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
¹² And David said to Uriah, Remain here today also and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow. ¹³ And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.
¹⁴ And it happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.
¹⁶ And it happened, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. ¹⁷ And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab. And there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David and Uriah the Hittite died also.

²⁵ Then David said to the messenger, Thus you will say to Joab, Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city and overthrow it. And encourage him.

⁵ And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow and my husband is dead. ⁶ And your handmaid had two sons and they two strove together in the field and there was none to part them, but the one killed* the other and killed him. ⁷ And behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid and they say, Deliver him who killed* his brother that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed and so destroy the heir also. Thus they will quench my coal which is left and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.
⁸ And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give charge concerning you. ⁹ And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me and on my father's house and the king and his throne be guiltless. ¹⁰ And the king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me and he will not touch you any more. ¹¹ Then she said, I beseech you, let the king remember Jehovah your God, that the avenger of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As Jehovah lives, there will not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

¹⁴ For we must die and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; God does not take away life, but devises means that he who is banished is not an outcast from him.

¹¹ And when David rose up in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, ¹² Go and speak to David, Jehovah says thus, I offer you three things. Choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. ¹³ So Gad came to David and told him and said to him, Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or will there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now decide and see what answer I will return to him who sent me.

¹ And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Jehovah to Bethel. And Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

¹ And it happened after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab and I will send rain upon the earth.

³⁵ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said by the word of Jehovah to his fellow, Strike me, I beseech you. And the man refused to kill* him. ³⁶ Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.
³⁷ Then he found another man and said, Strike me, I beseech you. And the man killed* him, slaying and wounding him. ³⁸ So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
³⁹ And as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, Keep this man. If by any means he is missing, then will your life be for his life, or else you will pay a talant of silver. ⁴⁰ And as your servant was busy here and there, he had gone. And the King of Israel said to him, So will your judgment be, yourself have decided it.
⁴¹ And he hastened and took the headband away from his eyes and the King of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

³ But the messenger of Jehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you* go to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

¹ Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. ² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ³ Because I know my transgressions and my sin is always before me.
⁴ Against you, you only, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, that you may be justified when you speak and may prevail when you are criticized.
⁵ Behold, I was brought out in iniquity and my mother conceived me in sin.
⁶ Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom.
⁷ Purify me with hyssop and I will be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. ⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
⁹ Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from your presence and take not your holy Spirit from me. ¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will be turned to you.
¹⁴ Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation. And my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
¹⁵ O Lord, open you my lips and my mouth will show forth your praise. ¹⁶ Because you delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and crushed heart, O God, you will not despise.
¹⁸ Do good in your good pleasure to Zion. Build you the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹ Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offering and in whole burnt offering. Then they will offer bullocks upon your altar.

¹ Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. ² And he dug it and gathered out the stones of it and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought out wild grapes.
³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I beseech you*, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought out wild grapes?
⁵ And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down. ⁶ And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

¹⁷ For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and killed* him. I hid my face and was angry and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
¹⁸ I have seen his ways and will heal him. I will lead him also and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

³³ Hear another parable: there was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard and placed a fence around it, and shoveled a winepress in it, and built a tower and rented it out to farmers, and went-abroad. ³⁴ Now when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his bondservants to the farmers, to receive his fruits. ³⁵ And then the farmers took his bondservants and whipped one, and killed one and stoned one. ³⁶ Again, he sent other bondservants, more-than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ But later he sent to them his son, saying, They will be revering my son. ³⁸ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir. Come-here. We should kill him, and we might hold-onto his inheritance. ³⁹ And having taken him, they cast him forth outside the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, whenever the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those farmers?
⁴¹ They say to him, He will evilly destroy those evil men, and will be renting the vineyard to other farmers, who will be giving to him the fruits at their seasons.
⁴² Jesus says to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this has become from the Lord and it is marvelous in our eyes? ⁴³ Because of this, I am saying to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it. ⁴⁴ And he who falls upon this stone will be shattered, but upon whomever it falls, it will be smashing him. ⁴⁵ And when the high-priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he is speaking concerning them.

¹¹ Now he said, A certain man had two sons. ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the part of the estate that would be put toward me. And he sections off his livelihood to them. ¹³ And not many days after, the younger son gathered it all together and went-abroad into a far region, and he squandered his estate with riotous living there. ¹⁴ Now having spent all, there became a mighty famine throughout that region, and he began to have lack of things. ¹⁵ And he traveled and joined himself to one of the citizens of that region, and he sent him into his field to feed swine. ¹⁶ And he was desiring to fill his belly from the carob pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. ¹⁷ Now having come to himself, he said, How many of my father’s hired servants are abounding, even of bread? But I am perishing here in famine! ¹⁸ After having risen up, I will be traveling to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned at heaven, and in your sight. ¹⁹ I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. \ulnone\nosupersub ²⁰ And standing up, he came to his father. But while he was still distant, far from him, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him. ²¹ But the son said to him, Father, I have sinned at heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
²² But the father said to his bondservants, Bring out the foremost robe and clothe him, and give him a ring for his hand and shoes for his feet; ²³ and when you have brought the fattened calf, sacrifice it, and when we eat it, we should be joyous. ²⁴ Because this one, my son, was dead and then lived again, and was perishing and then was found. And they began to be joyous. ²⁵ Now his elder son was in the field and as he is coming, he drew near to the house, and he heard harmony and dancers. ²⁶ And having called to him one of the young-servants, he was inquiring what these things might be.
²⁷ But he said to him, Your brother is coming, and your father has sacrificed the fattened calf because he has received him back healthy. ²⁸ But he was angry and was not willing to enter and therefore his father came out and was pleading him.
²⁹ But he answered and said to his father, Behold, I did serve you for so-many years, and I never passed over a commandment of yours, and yet you never gave me a young goat, in order that I might be joyous with my friends. ³⁰ But when this one, your son came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you sacrificed the fattened calf for him.
³¹ Now he said to him, Child, you are always with me, and all the things which are mine are yours. ³² But we ought to be joyous and rejoice, because this one, your brother was dead, and then lived again, and was perishing and then was found.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man and he was clothing himself in purple and fine-linen, having been radiantly joyous daily. ²⁰ Now there was a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, who had been put at his gate, having been full of sores, ²¹ and desiring to be fed from the falling crumbs of the rich man’s table. But even the dogs, coming to him, were licking his sores. ²² Now it happened, that the poor man died and that he was carried away by the messengers into Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and he sees Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.
²⁴ And having shouted, he said, Father Abraham, show-mercy to me, and send Lazarus in order that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and may cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this flame.
²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that you received your good things in your life and Lazarus likewise evil things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. ²⁶ And upon all things, a great chasm is established between us and you, that those who wish to cross over from here to you may not be able, nor may they ferry over from there to us. ²⁷ But he said, Therefore father, I am requesting him in order that you should send him to my father’s house; ²⁸ for I have five brethren; that he may thoroughly testify to them, in order that they may not even come into this place of torment.
²⁹ But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.
³⁰ But he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone travels to them from the dead, they will be repenting.
³¹ But he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if someone rises up from the dead.