2 Samuel 11:10
8 Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
11 Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
12 “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
- KJV
- And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
- WEB
- When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
- ASV
- And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?
- DARBY
- And they had told David saying, Urijah did not go down to his house; and David said to Urijah, Art thou not come from a journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
- BLB
- And they declared to David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house.” And David said to Uriah, “Is [it] not [that] you have come from a journey? Why [did] not you go down to your house?”
- ÅB
- Da det ble meldt David at Uria ikke var gått ned til sitt hus, sa David til ham: Kommer du ikke fra reisen? Hvorfor er du da ikke gått ned til ditt hus?
- OTB
- Da de informerte David og sa: "Uria gikk ikke ned til sitt hus," sa David til Uria: "Har du ikke kommet fra en reise? Hvorfor gikk du ikke ned til ditt hus?"
- B1930
- Da det blev meldt David at Uria ikke var gått ned til sitt hus, sa David til ham: Kommer du ikke fra reisen? Hvorfor er du da ikke gått ned til ditt hus?