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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_samuel/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">David and Bathsheba</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the spring of the year,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> 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.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Late 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m pregnant.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the army were getting along and how the war was progressing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then he told Uriah, “Go on home and relax.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>” David even sent a gift to Uriah after he had left the palace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Uriah didn’t go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When 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?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> 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.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then 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.</p><p class="hdg">David Arranges for Uriah’s Death</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Joab sent a battle report to David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He told his messenger, “Report all the news of the battle to the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But 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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Wasn’t Abimelech son of Gideon<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> 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.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So the messenger went to Jerusalem and gave a complete report to David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“The enemy came out against us in the open fields,” he said. “And as we chased them back to the city gate, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>the archers on the wall shot arrows at us. Some of the king’s men were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“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!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When 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.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">At the turn of the year.</span><span class="ft"> The first day of the year in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in March or April.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">and wash your feet,</span><span class="ft"> an expression that may also have a connotation of ritualistic washing.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">at Succoth.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">son of Jerub-besheth.</span><span class="ft"> Jerub-besheth is a variation on the name Jerub-baal, which is another name for Gideon; see Judg 6:32.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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