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2 Samuel 11:14

DavidJoabUriah
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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.

13 Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

15 In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”

16 So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.

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BSB
The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
KJV
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
WEB
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
ASV
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
DARBY
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by Urijah.
BLB
And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah.
ÅB
Morgenen etter skrev David et brev til Joab og sendte det med Uria.
OTB
Om morgenen ga David et brev til Joab som han sendte med Uria.
B1930
Morgenen efter skrev David et brev til Joab og sendte det med Uria.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 21:8–10

    Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

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  • Jeremiah 17:9

    The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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  • Micah 7:3–5

    Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

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  • Psalms 52:2

    Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

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  • Psalms 19:13

    Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

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  • Jeremiah 9:1–4

    Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

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  • Psalms 62:9

    Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

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