Verse 10
2 Samuel 11:10
Free Bible Version
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David was told, “Uriah didn't go home,” so he asked Uriah, “Haven't you just got back from being away? Why didn't you go home?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּגִּ֤דוּ לְ/דָוִד֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר לֹֽא יָרַ֥ד אוּרִיָּ֖ה אֶל בֵּית֑/וֹ וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל אוּרִיָּ֗ה הֲ/ל֤וֹא מִ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אַתָּ֣ה בָ֔א מַדּ֖וּעַ לֹֽא יָרַ֥דְתָּ אֶל בֵּיתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house." And David said to Uriah, "Are you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
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Chapter 11 Context
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Late one afternoon, David got up from taking a nap and was walking on the roof of the palace. From t...
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3
David sent someone to find out about the woman. He was told, “It's Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, and...
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4
David sent messengers to fetch her. When she came to him, he had sex with her. (Now she had just pur...
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5
Bathsheba became pregnant and sent a message to David to tell him, “I'm pregnant.”
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6
So David sent a message to Joab, telling him, “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.” Joab sent him to David...
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7
When Uriah came to see him, David asked him how Joab was doing, and how the army was doing, and how...
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8
Then David told Uriah, “Go home now and have a rest.” Uriah left the palace, and the king sent him a...
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9
But Uriah didn't go home. He slept in the guardroom at the palace entrance with all the king's guard...
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10
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12
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13
David invited Uriah to dinner. Uriah ate and drank with him, and David got Uriah drunk. But in the e...
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14
In the morning David wrote Joab a letter, and gave it to Uriah to take to him.
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15
In the letter, David told Joab, “Put Uriah right in the front where the fighting is worst, and then...
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16
As Joab besieged the town, he made Uriah take a place where he knew the strongest enemy men would be...
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17
When the town's defenders came out and attacked Joab, some of David's men were killed, including Uri...
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18
He ordered the messenger, saying, “When you've finished telling the king all about the battle,
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if the king gets angry and asks you, ‘Why did you get so near to the town in the attack? Didn't you...
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20
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The messenger explained to David, “The defenders were stronger than us, and they came out at us in t...
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23
Their archers shot at us from the wall, and killed some of the king's men. Your officer Uriah the Hi...
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Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab this: ‘Don't be upset about this, for the sword destroy...
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25
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