2 Samuel 11 NLT NIV Parallel

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1In the spring of the year, when kings normally go out to war, David sent Joab and the Israelite army to fight the Ammonites. They destroyed the Ammonite army and laid siege to the city of Rabbah. However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.

1In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

2Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.

2One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,

3He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

3and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite."

4Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home.

4Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.

5Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m pregnant.”

5The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."

6Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

6So David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David.

7When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the army were getting along and how the war was progressing.

7When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going.

8Then he told Uriah, “Go on home and relax. ” David even sent a gift to Uriah after he had left the palace.

8Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

9But Uriah didn’t go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.

9But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.

10When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he summoned him and asked, “What’s the matter? Why didn’t you go home last night after being away for so long?”

10David was told, "Uriah did not go home." So he asked Uriah, "Haven't you just come from a military campaign? Why didn't you go home?"

11Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents, and Joab and my master’s men are camping in the open fields. How could I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I would never do such a thing.”

11Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!"

12“Well, stay here today,” David told him, “and tomorrow you may return to the army.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

12Then David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

13Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn’t get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard. David Arranges for Uriah’s Death

13At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.

14So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver.

14In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

15The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.”

15In it he wrote, "Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."

16So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting.

16So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.

17And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.

17When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

18Then Joab sent a battle report to David.

18Joab sent David a full account of the battle.

19He told his messenger, “Report all the news of the battle to the king.

19He instructed the messenger: "When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,

20But he might get angry and ask, ‘Why did the troops go so close to the city? Didn’t they know there would be shooting from the walls?

20the king's anger may flare up, and he may ask you, 'Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

21Wasn’t Abimelech son of Gideon killed at Thebez by a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall? Why would you get so close to the wall?’ Then tell him, ‘Uriah the Hittite was killed, too.’”

21Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn't a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?' If he asks you this, then say to him, 'Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'"

22So the messenger went to Jerusalem and gave a complete report to David.

22The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.

23“The enemy came out against us in the open fields,” he said. “And as we chased them back to the city gate,

23The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate.

24the archers on the wall shot arrows at us. Some of the king’s men were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.”

24Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead."

25“Well, tell Joab not to be discouraged,” David said. “The sword devours this one today and that one tomorrow! Fight harder next time, and conquer the city!”

25David told the messenger, "Say this to Joab: 'Don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' Say this to encourage Joab."

26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

26When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

27When the period of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace, and she became one of his wives. Then she gave birth to a son. But the LORD was displeased with what David had done.

27After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.

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