“David exploded with anger against the man and said to Natan, ‘As Adonai lives, the man who did this deserves to die! For doing such a thing, he has to pay back four times the value of the lamb — and also because he had no pity.”-Samuel 12:5-6 After hearing Natan’s story, David, in a […]

“One day a traveler visited the rich man, and instead of picking an animal from his own flock or herd to cook for his visitor, he took the poor man’s lamb and cooked it for the man who had come to him.”-2 Samuel 12:4 Today, I wanna take a midrashic approach to verse 4 in […]

“Adonai sent Natan to David. He came and said to him, ‘In a certain city, there were two men, one rich, the other poor.   The rich man had vast flocks and herds,  but the poor man had nothing, except for one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and reared. It had grown up […]

“Adonai sent Natan to David. He came and said to him, ‘In a certain city, there were two men, one rich, the other poor.  The rich man had vast flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing, except for one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and reared. It had grown up with […]

“Adonai sent Natan to David. He came and said to him, In a certain city there were two men, one rich, the other poor.’”-2 Samuel 12:1 In our world, men of power seem to get away with committing the most grievous of crimes. King David was no exception. He had committed adultery and murder… Crimes […]