2 Samuel Chapter 11
11:1 | And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
11:2 | And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the ![]() ![]() |
11:3 | And David sent and inquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? |
11:4 | And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her ![]() |
11:5 | And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child. |
11:6 | And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. |
11:7 | And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. |
11:8 | And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
11:9 | But Uriah slept at the door of the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
11:10 | And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his ![]() ![]() |
11:11 | And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
11:12 | And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to ![]() ![]() ![]() |
11:13 | And when David had called him, he did eat and ![]() ![]() |
11:14 | And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah. |
11:15 | And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. |
11:16 | And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men [were]. |
11:17 | And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. |
11:18 | Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; |
11:19 | And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the ![]() |
11:20 | And if so be that the ![]() |
11:21 | Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. |
11:22 | So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. |
11:23 | And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. |
11:24 | And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the ![]() |
11:25 | Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the ![]() |
11:26 | And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. |
11:27 | And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his ![]() |