The Ewe Lamb

The Lord sent Nathan to David.
When he came to him, he said,
"There were two men in a certain town,
one rich and the other poor.
The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle,
but the poor man had nothing
except one little ewe lamb he had bought.
He raised it,
and it grew up with him and his children.
It shared his food,
drank from his cup
and even slept in his arms.
It was like a daughter to him.

"Now a traveler came to the rich man,
but the rich man refrained
from taking one of his own sheep or cattle
to prepare a meal for the traveler
who had come to him.
Instead, he took the ewe lamb
that belonged to the poor man
and prepared it for the one who had come to him."

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!
He must pay for that lamb four times over,
because he did such a thing and had no pity.

Then Nathan said to David,
"Your are that man!"

(II Samuel 12:1-7)