These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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2 Samuel 11
Tanakh 27 verses
- 1 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all ; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But tarried at .
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And it came to pass at eventide, that arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
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Deuteronomy 22:8 Matthew 5:28 Acts 10:9 Job 31:1 1 Peter 4:7 Proverbs 31:30 Jeremiah 19:13 Proverbs 19:15 2 Samuel 4:7 1 John 2:16 1 Samuel 9:25 Psalm 119:37 Proverbs 24:33-34 Matthew 10:27 Proverbs 6:25 Genesis 6:2 Genesis 34:2 Genesis 3:6 Genesis 39:6 2 Samuel 4:5 Matthew 26:40-41 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 -
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And sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: ‘Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?’
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- 4 And sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.
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And the woman conceived; and she sent and told , and said: ‘I am with child.’
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- 6 And sent to Joab [, saying]: ‘Send me Uriah the Hittite.’ And Joab sent Uriah to .
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And when Uriah was come unto him, asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
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And said to Uriah: ‘Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.’ And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of food from the .
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But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
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- 10 And when they had told , saying: ‘Uriah went not down unto his house’, said unto Uriah: ‘Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?’
- 11 And Uriah said unto : ‘The , and , and , abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy liveth, I will not do this thing.’
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And said to Uriah: ‘Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart.’ So Uriah abode in that day, and the morrow.
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And when had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk; and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
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And it came to pass in the morning, that wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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And he wrote in the letter, saying: ‘Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.’
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- 16 And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men were.
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And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of ; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
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- 18 Then Joab sent and told all the things concerning the war;
- 19 and he charged the messenger, saying: ‘When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the ,
- 20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee: Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
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who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say: Thy Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’
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- 22 So the messenger went, and came and told all that Joab had sent him for.
- 23 And the messenger said unto : ‘The men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entrance of the gate.
- 24 And the shooters shot at thy servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and thy Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’
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Then said unto the messenger: ‘Thus shalt thou say unto Joab: Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth in one manner or another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it; and encourage thou him.’
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
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- 27 And when the mourning was past, sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that had done displeased .