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Nathan’s Parable and David’s Confession

1 Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And ahe came to him, and bsaid to him: “There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.  
2 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds.
3 But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.
4 And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
5 So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this1 shall surely die!  
6 And he shall restore afourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.”  
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I aanointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.  
8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!
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Notice that the man is called a rich man and he had no pity. So through Nathan, God made David realize with what arrogance, with what lack of pity he had dealt with others. From this attitude, the one in charge of his salvation, he calls Him there back in Psalm 51, the God of my salvation, he is saying the One who is working with me to give me salvation had saved him through this intervention that had happened with Nathan, you know, sending Nathan to David. It was the God of salvation trying to pull David back from this attitude of lack of pity. Of being like the arrogant rich man who thinks he could do whatever he pleases. David had become the iconic, the classic rich man that we see in the Bible. The one who cruelly exploits and abuses those that are under him. He has little care for them.

Excerpted from Psalm 51 (Part Four): Psalm 51:13-19

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