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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_samuel/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">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, 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>One 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and 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.” <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. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And 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 came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>David 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?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or staying at Sukkoth">a</a></sup></span> 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!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>At 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In 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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Joab sent David a full account of the battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>the 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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Also known as Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon)">b</a></sup></span> ? 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.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then 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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>David 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.”</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>After 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 <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>staying at Sukkoth</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">Also known as <i>Jerub-Baal</i> (that is, Gideon)</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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