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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Samuel 11 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Samuel 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/10.htm" title="2 Samuel 10">◄</a> 2 Samuel 11 <a href="../2_samuel/12.htm" title="2 Samuel 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">David and Bathsheba</h3><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.1" class="v10_11_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The following spring, at the time of the year when kings usually go to war, David sent out Joab with his officers and the Israelite army; they defeated the Ammonites and besieged the city of Rabbah. But David himself stayed in Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.2" class="v10_11_2">2</span>One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful. </span><span class="v10_11_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.3" class="v10_11_3">3</span>So he sent a messenger to find out who she was, and learned that she was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite. </span><span class="v10_11_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.4" class="v10_11_4">4</span>David sent messengers to get her; they brought her to him and he made love to her. (She had just finished her monthly ritual of purification.) Then she went back home. </span><span class="v10_11_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.5" class="v10_11_5">5</span>Afterward she discovered that she was pregnant and sent a message to David to tell him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.6" class="v10_11_6">6</span>David then sent a message to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David. </span><span class="v10_11_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.7" class="v10_11_7">7</span>When Uriah arrived, David asked him if Joab and the troops were well, and how the fighting was going. </span><span class="v10_11_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.8" class="v10_11_8">8</span>Then he said to Uriah, “Go on home and rest a while.” Uriah left, and David had a present sent to his home. </span><span class="v10_11_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.9" class="v10_11_9">9</span>But Uriah did not go home; instead he slept at the palace gate with the king's guards. </span><span class="v10_11_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.10" class="v10_11_10">10</span>When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he asked him, “You have just returned after a long absence; why didn't you go home?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.11" class="v10_11_11">11</span>Uriah answered, “The men of Israel and Judah are away in battle, and the Covenant Box is with them; my commander Joab and his officers are camping out in the open. How could I go home, eat and drink, and sleep with my wife? By all that's sacred, I swear that I could never do such a thing!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.12" class="v10_11_12">12</span>So David said, “Then stay here the rest of the day, and tomorrow I'll send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next. </span><span class="v10_11_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.13" class="v10_11_13">13</span>David invited him to supper and got him drunk. But again that night Uriah did not go home; instead he slept on his blanket<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> in the palace guardroom.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.14" class="v10_11_14">14</span>The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah. </span><span class="v10_11_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.15" class="v10_11_15">15</span>He wrote: “Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed.” </span><span class="v10_11_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.16" class="v10_11_16">16</span>So while Joab was besieging the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong. </span><span class="v10_11_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.17" class="v10_11_17">17</span>The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.18" class="v10_11_18">18</span>Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle, </span><span class="v10_11_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.19" class="v10_11_19">19</span>and he instructed the messenger, “After you have told the king all about the battle, </span><span class="v10_11_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.20" class="v10_11_20">20</span>he may get angry and ask you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight them? Didn't you realize that they would shoot arrows from the walls? </span><span class="v10_11_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.21" class="v10_11_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?’ If the king asks you this, tell him, ‘Your officer Uriah was also killed.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.22" class="v10_11_22">22</span>So the messenger went to David and told him what Joab had commanded him to say. </span><span class="v10_11_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.23" class="v10_11_23">23</span>He said, “Our enemies were stronger than we were and came out of the city to fight us in the open, but we drove them back to the city gate. </span><span class="v10_11_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.24" class="v10_11_24">24</span>Then they shot arrows at us from the wall, and some of Your Majesty's officers were killed; your officer Uriah was also killed.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.25" class="v10_11_25">25</span>David said to the messenger, “Encourage Joab and tell him not to be upset, since you never can tell who will die in battle. Tell him to launch a stronger attack on the city and capture it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.26" class="v10_11_26">26</span>When Bathsheba heard that her husband had been killed, she mourned for him. </span><span class="v10_11_27"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.27" class="v10_11_27">27</span>When the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to the palace; she became his wife and bore him a son. 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