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2 Samuel 11 📜 📕 ↷
2 Whilst these things were in doing, it chanced that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked in the top of the king's house: and he saw a woman washing her self, over-against the roof of his house: and the woman was very beautiful.📜💬📚
3 The king therefore sent, and inquired what woman it was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hetheite.📜💬📚
4 David therefore sending messengers took her, who when she was entered in to him, he slept with her: and forth with she was sanctified from her uncleanness:📜💬📚
5 and she returned into her house having conceived a child. And sending she told David, and said: I have conceived.📜💬📚
6 And David sent to Joab, saying: Send Urias the Hetheite. And Joab sent Urias to David.📜💬📚
7 And Urias came to David. And David asked how well Joab did, & the people, and how the war was ordered.📜💬📚
8 And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And Urias went forth out of the king's house, & the king's meat followed him.📜💬📚
9 But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.📜💬📚
10 And it was told David of them that said: Urias went not into his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? Why didst thou not go down into thy house?📜💬📚
11 And Urias said to David: The Ark of God and Israel & Juda dwell in pavilions, & my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I enter into my house, to eat and to drink, and sleep with my wife? By thy health, and by the health of thy soul I will not do this thing.📜💬📚
12 David therefore said to Urias: tarry here also this day, and to morrow I will dismiss thee. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next:📜💬📚
13 and David called him to eat before him and to drink, and he made him drunk: who going out at even, slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.📜💬📚
David Arranges Uriah's Death
14 The morning therefore was come, and David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,📜💬📚
15 writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave him, that being strucken he may die.📜💬📚
16 Therefore when Joab besieged the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the strongest men were.📜💬📚
17 And the men issuing out of the city, fought against Joab, and there fell of the people of the servants of David, and Urias also the Hetheite died.📜💬📚
18 Joab therefore sent, and told David all the story of the battle:📜💬📚
19 and he commanded the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the story of the battle to the king,📜💬📚
20 if thou see him to be angry, and he say: Why approached you to the wall, to fight? Knew you not that many weapons are thrown from above of the wall?📜💬📚
21 Who struck Abimelec the son of Jerobaal? Did not a woman cast upon him a piece of a millstone from the wall, and slew him in Thebes? Why approached you near the wall? Thous shalt say: Also thy servant Urias the Hetheite is slain.📜💬📚
22 The messenger therefore departed, and came, and told David all things that Joab had commanded him,📜💬📚
23 And the messenger said to David: The men have prevailed against us, and they issued forth to us into the field: and we violently pursued them even to the gate of the city.📜💬📚
24 And the archers shot arrows at thy servants from off the wall above: and there died of the king's servants, yea and thy servant Urias the Hetheite is dead.📜💬📚
25 And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing discomfort thee: for the event of war is diverse: now this man, and now that man the sword consumeth: encourage thy warriors against the city, that thou mayest destroy it, and exhort them.📜💬📚
David Marries Bathsheba
26 Also the wife of Urias heard, that Urias her husband was dead, & she mourned for him.📜💬📚
27 And the mourning being past, David sent and brought her in into his house, & she became his wife, and she bare him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasant before our Lord.📜💬📚
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