2 Samuel 11
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2 Samuel 11
David Commits Adultery with Bathsheba
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2 Sam 12.26–28; 1 Kings 20.22, 26; 1 Chr 20.1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
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Deut 22.8; Mt 5.28 It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. 3#2 Sam 23.39David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, “This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4#Lev 15.19, 28; 18.19So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. 5#Lev 20.10The woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
6So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared and how the war was going. 8#Gen 43.24; Lk 7.44Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house. 10When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house?” 11#2 Sam 7.2, 6; 20.6Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths,#11.11 Or at Succoth 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? As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing.” 12Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day,#11.12 Gk ms Syr ms OL ms: Heb that day and the next 13#v 9David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk, and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
David Has Uriah Killed
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1 Kings 21.8–10
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15#2 Sam 12.9In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.” 16As Joab kept watch over the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant warriors. 17#v 21The men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was killed as well. 18Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting, 19and he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting, 20if the king’s anger rises and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21#Judg 9.50–54Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbaal?#11.21 Gk Syr: Heb 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, too.’ ”
22So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 24Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.” 25David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; press your attack on the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”
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Deut 34.8; 1 Sam 31.13 When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. 27#2 Sam 12.9; Ps 51.4, 5When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
Nathan Condemns David
But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,
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