03/07/2026
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In 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan confronts King David about his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband Uriah. He tells a parable of a rich man who steals a poor man's only beloved lamb. David, angered by the story, declares that the rich man must die and restore the lamb fourfold.
This fourfold restitution is a direct reference to a specific law found in the Book of the Covenant (Exodus).
However, David's own life later literally fulfills this fourfold restitution through the deaths of four of his sons.
Can you name all four of David's sons whose deaths served as the direct, tragic fulfillment of the "fourfold" penalty he pronounced upon himself, and specify which one is not listed in the immediate narrative of 2 Samuel but is explicitly connected to this curse by later rabbinical tradition and textual clues?