2 Samuel 11:24
22 So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
23 The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
25 Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
- KJV
- And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- WEB
- The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
- ASV
- And the shooters shot at thy servants from off the wall; and some of the king`s servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- DARBY
- And the shooters shot from upon the wall against thy servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.
- BLB
- And those shooting shot at your servants from the wall, and [some] of the servants of the king are dead, and also your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
- ÅB
- Da skjøt bueskytterne fra muren ned på dine tjenere, og det falt noen av kongens tjenere; også din tjener hetitten Uria døde.
- OTB
- Da skjøt bueskytterne på dine tjenere fra muren; noen av kongens tjenere døde, og din tjener Uria hetitten døde også."
- B1930
- Da skjøt bueskytterne fra muren ned på dine tjenere, og det falt nogen av kongens tjenere; også din tjener hetitten Uria døde.