Teks -- 2 Samuel 12:3 (NET)

12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. It used to eat his food, drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. It was just like a daughter to him.

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Wesley: 2Sa 12:3 - Bought

As men then used to buy their wives: or, had procured.

Clarke: 2Sa 12:3 - And lay in his bosom

And lay in his bosom - This can only mean that this lamb was what we call a pet or favourite in the family, else the circumstance would be very unnatural, and most likely would have prevented David from making the application which he did, as otherwise it would have appeared absurd. It is the only part of this parable which is at variance with nature and fact.

TSK: 2Sa 12:3 - one little // meat // lay in his

one little : 2Sa 11:3; Pro 5:18, Pro 5:19

meat : Heb. morsel

lay in his : Deu 13:6; Mic 7:5

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Poole: 2Sa 12:3 - The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb

The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb designing Uriah, with his own and only wife. Which he had bought; as men then used to buy their wives; or, had procured. Lay in his bosom; which David might take for hyperbolical expressions of his tender care of and affection to it; although there want not instances of some who have treated such brute creatures in this manner.

Haydock: 2Sa 12:3 - Daughter

Daughter. All these expressions tended to shew the affection of the owner for this pet lamb. (Haydock) ---

In Arabia, one of the finest is commonly fed in the house along with the children. (Bochart, Anim. T. i. B. ii. 46.) ---

It is not necessary that every word of this parable should have been verified in Bethsabee. (Calmet) ---

Many things are usually added for ornament. (Menochius) ---

Yet she had been treated in the most tender manner by her husband, who had her alone, while David had eighteen wives. (Haydock)

Gill: 2Sa 12:3 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb // which he had bought // and nourished up // and it grew up together with him, and with his children // 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

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, Eph 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 ^q has given many instances of creatures nourished and brought up in such a familiar manner.