2 Samuel 11 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Bathsheba, David's Great Sin

2Sa 11:1Then it happened [fn]in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

2Sa 11:2

2Sa 11:2Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

2Sa 11:3

2Sa 11:3So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

2Sa 11:4

2Sa 11:4David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

2Sa 11:5

2Sa 11:5The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am pregnant.”

2Sa 11:6

2Sa 11:6Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

2Sa 11:7

2Sa 11:7When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and [fn]the people and the state of the war.

2Sa 11:8

2Sa 11:8Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and a present from the king [fn]was sent out after him.

2Sa 11:9

2Sa 11:9But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

2Sa 11:10

2Sa 11:10Now when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”

2Sa 11:11

2Sa 11:11Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in [fn]temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.”

2Sa 11:12

2Sa 11:12Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the [fn]next.

2Sa 11:13

2Sa 11:13Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.

2Sa 11:14

2Sa 11:14Now in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

2Sa 11:15

2Sa 11:15He had written in the letter, saying, “[fn]Place Uriah in the front line of the [fn]fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.”

2Sa 11:16

2Sa 11:16So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men.

2Sa 11:17

2Sa 11:17The men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David’s servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.

2Sa 11:18

2Sa 11:18Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war.

2Sa 11:19

2Sa 11:19He charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,

2Sa 11:20

2Sa 11:20and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

2Sa 11:21

2Sa 11:21‘Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

2Sa 11:22

2Sa 11:22So the messenger departed and came and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

2Sa 11:23

2Sa 11:23The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we [fn]pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

2Sa 11:24

2Sa 11:24“Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”

2Sa 11:25

2Sa 11:25Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing [fn]displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and overthrow it’; and so encourage him.”

2Sa 11:26

2Sa 11:26Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2Sa 11:27

2Sa 11:27When the time of mourning was over, David sent and [fn]brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(11:1)

Literally: at the return of the year

(11:7)

Literally: welfare of

(11:8)

Literally: went out

Or, booths

Literally: morrow

Literally: Give

Literally: strong

Literally: were upon

(11:25)

Literally: be evil in your sight

(11:27)

Literally: gathered

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