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And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man: and he said to Nathan': As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. And ' Nathan said to David: Thou art the man.

I used to envy my brother his name, and recall once accusing my mother of having favored him, else why did she name me Nathan' and him Philip, tell me that, ma, tell me that. He had king Philip and if day-dreaming that association wasn't pleasure enough, there was the then movie star, Phillips Holmes. All I had was '''Nathan''' Hale. Admittedly, '''Nathan''' Hale would have been fine — except among our schoolyard ditties was the couplet: '''''Nathan''' Hale, / '''Nathan''' Hale, / He shit in a pail, / Shit in a pail.'' Being a ' Nathan was sometimes trying.

He was so proud he'd had a son. He talked me into naming him Nathan saying he had always loved that name. I was surprised to see when I looked it up in a name book it meant gift from God. And yes that was a very appropriate name.

Proper noun

So Joshua' took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and ' Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

"His father had a notion," observes Malone, on the authority of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, "that it might at some future period of his life be an advantage to a child to bear an uncommon Christian name, - - - Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua , which, though not very uncommon, occurs less frequently than many others." But another biographer has suggested, with more appearance of reason, that it was probably given to him because an uncle, who was one of his godfathers, bore the same name,