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Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 11

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2 Samuel 11 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Samuel 11 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 11 of 2 Samuel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. 1Then it happened [a]2in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and 3besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
  2. ¶ Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on 4the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.
  3. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is this not 5Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of 6Uriah the Hittite?”
  4. David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, 7he lay with her; 8and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.
  5. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “9I am pregnant.”
  6. ¶ Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
  7. When Uriah came to him, 10David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and [b]the people and the state of the war.
  8. Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and 11wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and a present from the king [c]was sent out after him.
  9. But Uriah slept 12at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
  10. Now when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
  11. Uriah said to David, “13The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in [d]temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and 14the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.”
  12. Then David said to Uriah, “15Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the [e]next.
  13. Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he 16made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed 17with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.
  14. ¶ Now in the morning David 18wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
  15. 19He had written in the letter, saying, “[f]Place Uriah in the front line of the [g]fiercest battle and withdraw from him, 20so that he may be struck down and die.”
  16. So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men.
  17. The men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David’s servants fell; and 21Uriah the Hittite also died.
  18. Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war.
  19. He charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,
  20. and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
  21. Who 22struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”
  22. ¶ So the messenger departed and came and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to tell.
  23. The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we [h]pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.
  24. Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
  25. Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing [i]displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and overthrow it’; and so encourage him.”
  26. ¶ Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, 23she mourned for her husband.
  27. When the time of mourning was over, David sent and [j]brought her to his house and 24she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But 25the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit at the return of the year
  2. ^ Lit welfare of
  3. ^ Lit went out
  4. ^ Or booths
  5. ^ Lit morrow
  6. ^ Lit Give
  7. ^ Lit strong
  8. ^ Lit were upon
  9. ^ Lit be evil in your sight
  10. ^ Lit gathered

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ch 20:1
  2. ^ 2Sa 10:14; 1Ki 20:22, 26
  3. ^ 2Sa 12:26-29; Je 49:2, 3; Am 1:14
  4. ^ De 22:8; 1Sa 9:25; Mt 24:17; Ac 10:9
  5. ^ 1Ch 3:5
  6. ^ 2Sa 23:39
  7. ^ Ps 51, title; Jm 1:14, 15
  8. ^ Le 12:2-5; 15:18-28; 18:19
  9. ^ Le 20:10; De 22:22
  10. ^ Ge 37:14; 1Sa 17:22
  11. ^ Ge 43:24; Lu 7:44
  12. ^ 1Ki 14:27, 28
  13. ^ 2Sa 7:2, 6
  14. ^ 2Sa 20:6
  15. ^ Jb 20:12-14
  16. ^ Pr 20:1; 23:29-35
  17. ^ 2Sa 11:9
  18. ^ 1Ki 21:8-10
  19. ^ Ec 8:11; Je 17:9
  20. ^ 2Sa 12:9
  21. ^ 2Sa 11:21
  22. ^ Jg 9:50-54
  23. ^ Ge 50:10; De 34:8; 1Sa 31:13
  24. ^ 2Sa 12:9
  25. ^ Ps 51:4, 5

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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