2 Samuel 11

David and Bathsheba

1In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

2One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

6So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.

10David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”

11Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,#11:11 Or staying at Sukkoth and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”

12Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.

14In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

16So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

18Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, 20the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? 21Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth#11:21 Also known as Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon)? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’ ”

22The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. 23The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate. 24Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”

25David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.”

26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.

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2 SAMUELE 11

Davida le Batesheba

1Ha selemo se thwasa, e leng nako eo dikgosi di yeng di futuhe ka yona, Davida a roma Joabe, a ena le balaodi ba hae, le bahlabani bohle ba Baiseraele. Ba timetsa Baamone, ba thibella Raba. Empa Davida yena o ne a setse Jerusalema.

2Ka tsatsi le leng, motsheare wa mantsiboya, Davida a tsoha diphateng tsa hae. Ha a ntse a otlolla maoto hodima marulelo a ntlo ya bokgosi, a bona mosadi a ntse a tola. Mosadi eo o ne a le motle haholo. 3Davida a romela leqosa ho ya botsa hore na mosadi eo ke mang. Leqosa leo la tla le re: “Ke Batesheba, moradi wa Eliame, mosadi wa Uriya wa Mohete.” 4Davida a romela maqosa ho ya mo lata. Mosadi eo a tla, mme Davida a robala le yena. Mosadi enwa o ne a sa tswa hlatswa lehatlelo la hae. Kamora moo, mosadi a kgutlela ha hae. 5Mosadi eo a ithwala; yaba o romela molaetsa ho Davida, o re: “Ke ithwetse.”

6Davida a romela molaetsa ho Joabe, a re: “Ere Uriya wa Mohete a ke a tle kwano.” Joabe a romela Uriya ho Davida. 7Ha Uriya a fihla ho yena, Davida a mmotsa hore na Joabe o phela jwang le mabotho, le hore na ntwa e tsamaya jwang. 8Davida a re ho Uriya: “Eya lapeng, o yo phomola.” Uriya a tswa ka tlung ya bokgosi, mme kgosi ya mo romela dijo tse ngata. 9Empa Uriya a ithoballa monyakong wa ntlo ya bokgosi, a ena le bahlanka bohle ba kgosi, a se ke a ya ha hae.

10Davida a bolellwa, ha thwe: “Uriya ha a a ka a ya lapeng.”

Yaba Davida o re ho Uriya: “Ha ke re o tswa leetong? Jwale ke hobaneng o sa kang wa ya lapeng ha hao?”

11Uriya a re ho Davida: “Areka e dutse ka tenteng; Baiseraele, le ba morabe wa Juda, le bona ba dutse ka ditenteng; le monga ka Joabe le bahlabani ba monga ka ba hlomme hara naha; jwale nna nka ya lapeng ha ka jwang, ho ya ja, le ho ya nwa, le ho ya robala le mosadi wa ka? Ke hlapanya ka wena, ntho e tjena nke ke ka e etsa!”

12Davida a re ho Uriya: “Le kajeno emisa mona, mme hosasane ke tla o lokolla, o tsamaye.” Ka baka leo, Uriya a hlola Jerusalema letsatsing leo, le le hlahlamang. 13Davida a mo mema, a fihla a ja, a nwa, mme Davida a mo tahisa. Ka phirimana yona eo, Uriya a ithoballa le bahlanka ba monga hae, empa ha e le tlung ha hae, teng a se ke a ya.

14Hoseng Davida a ngolla Joabe, mme lengolo leo a le neeletsa Uriya. 15Lengolong moo Davida o ne a ngotse, a itse: “Bea Uriya kamoo ntwa e leng mahlomafubedu kateng, ebe lona le a tjhetjha, a tle a hlajwe, a shwe.”

16Ha Joabe a ntse a patetse motse, a isa Uriya thekong eo a tsebang hore ho yona ho eme bahale. 17Bahlabani ba motse oo ba tswa, ba lwantsha Joabe. Bahlabani ba bang ba Davida ba bolawa; le Uriya wa Mohete le yena a bolawa.

18Jwale Joabe a romela molaetsa, a tsebisa Davida tsohle tse amanang le ntwa. 19A laela leqosa, a re: “Ha o qetile ho phetela kgosi tsohle tse amanang le ntwa, 20eba kgosi e a halefa, e re ho wena: ‘Ke ka baka lang le ileng la lwanela haufi le motse hakaalo? Na le ne le sa tsebe hore ba tla le fula ka metsu, ba le hodima lerako? 21Ke mang ya neng a bolaye Abimeleke, mora wa Jerubeshete? Na hase mosadi ya neng a le hodima lerako, ya neng a mmate ka tshilwana, mme Abimeleke a shwella Tebese? Ke hobaneng le ileng la atamela pela lerako hakaalo?’ Jwale wena o tle o re ho yena: ‘Le mohlanka wa hao, Uriya wa Mohete, o bolailwe.’ ”

22Yaba leqosa le a tsamaya, le fihla ho Davida, le mo phetela tsohle tseo Joabe a neng a le romile tsona. 23Leqosa lena la re ho Davida: “Banna bano ba ile ba re fekisa. Ba ile ba tswa motseng, ba ya re lwantshetsa naheng, empa ra ba tjhetjhisa ho ya fihla kgorong ya motse. 24Ba diqha, ba le hodima lerako, ba fula bahlanka ba hao, mme ba bang ba bahlanka ba kgosi ba ile ba bolawa; le mohlanka wa hao, Uriya wa Mohete, o bolailwe.”

25Davida a re ho leqosa: “O tle o re ho Joabe: ‘Ntho ena e se ke ya ba ya o tshwenya, hobane sabole e nne e etse tse tjena. Tiisang matla, le futuhele motse ono, le o ripitle.’ Wena o mo kgothatse jwalo.”

26Ha mosadi wa Uriya a utlwa hore monna wa hae o bolailwe, a mo aparela bofifi. 27Ha nako ya bofifi ba hae e se e fetile, Davida a romela maqosa ho lata Batesheba, mme a mo isa tlung ya hae, ya eba mosadi wa hae. A tswalla Davida mora. Empa ntho ena eo Davida a neng a e entse ya se ke ya kgahla Morena.

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