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The Second Book of Samuel, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} It happened after this, that the king of the children of
Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. {10:2} David said,
"I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed
kindness to me." So David sent by his servants to comfort him
concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the
children of Ammon.
{10:3} But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their
lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent
comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the
city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" {10:4} So Hanun took
David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut
off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent
them away. {10:5} When they told it to David, he sent to meet them;
for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho
until your beards have grown, and then return."
{10:6} When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious
to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth
Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king
of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand
men. {10:7} When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of
the mighty men. {10:8} The children of Ammon came out, and put the
battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah
and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the
field. {10:9} Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him
before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put
them in array against the Syrians: {10:10} The rest of the people he
committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in
array against the children of Ammon. {10:11} He said, "If the Syrians
are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of
Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. {10:12}
Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities
of our God; and the LORD do that which seems good to him." {10:13} So
Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against
the Syrians: and they fled before him. {10:14} When the children of
Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before
Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the
children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. {10:15} When the Syrians saw
that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
{10:16} Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond
the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the
army of Hadadezer at their head. {10:17} It was told David; and he
gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to
Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought
with him. {10:18} The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of
the Syrians seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen,
and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
{10:19} When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that
they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and
served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any
more.
{11:1} It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when
kings go out, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all
Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
But David stayed at Jerusalem. {11:2} It happened at evening, that
David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's
house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was
very beautiful to look on. {11:3} David sent and inquired after the
woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the
wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
{11:4} David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him,
and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and
she returned to her house. {11:5} The woman conceived; and she sent
and told David, and said, "I am with child."
{11:6} David sent to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent
Uriah to David. {11:7} When Uriah had come to him, David asked of him
how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
{11:8} David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your
feet." Uriah departed out of the king's house, and a gift from the
king was sent after him. {11:9} But Uriah slept at the door of the
king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to
his house. {11:10} When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn't go
down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven't you come from a
journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"
{11:11} Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are
staying in tents; 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 you live, and as your soul
lives, I will not do this thing!"
{11:12} David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I
will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the
next day. {11:13} When David had called him, he ate and drink before
him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed
with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
{11:14} It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah. {11:15} He wrote in the letter,
saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and
retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die."
{11:16} It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he
assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
{11:17} The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of
the people fell, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite
died also. {11:18} Then Joab sent and told David all the things
concerning the war; {11:19} and he commanded the messenger, saying,
"When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to
the king, {11:20} it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he
asks you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you
know that they would shoot from the wall? {11:21} who struck Abimelech
the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast 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.'"
{11:22} So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that
Joab had sent him for. {11:23} The messenger said to David, "The men
prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were
on them even to the entrance of the gate. {11:24} 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 dead also."
{11:25} Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab,
'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well
as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow
it.' Encourage him."
{11:26} When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was
dead, she made lamentation for her husband. {11:27} When the mourning
was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became
his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done
displeased the LORD.
{12:1} The LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to
him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other
poor. {12:2} The rich man had very many flocks and herds, {12:3} but
the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had
bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his
children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his
bosom, and was to him like a daughter. {12:4} A traveler came to the
rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd,
to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor
man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."
{12:5} David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he
said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this is
worthy to die! {12:6} He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he
did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
{12:7} Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what the
LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I
delivered you out of the hand of Saul. {12:8} I gave you your master's
house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house
of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I
would have added to you many more such things. {12:9} Why have you
despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight?
You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his
wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the
children of Ammon. {12:10} Now therefore the sword will never depart
from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife
of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
{12:11} "This is what the LORD says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil
against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before
your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your
wives in the sight of this sun. {12:12} For you did it secretly, but I
will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
{12:13} David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD."
Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin. You will
not die. {12:14} However, because by this deed you have given great
occasion to the LORD's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is
born to you shall surely die." {12:15} Nathan departed to his house.
The LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it
was very sick. {12:16} David therefore begged God for the child; and
David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth. {12:17} The
elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth:
but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. {12:18} It
happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of
David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said,
"Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't
listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him
that the child is dead?"
{12:19} But when David saw that his servants were whispering
together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to
his servants, "Is the child dead?"
They said, "He is dead."
{12:20} Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of the
LORD, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he
required, they set bread before him, and he ate. {12:21} Then his
servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and
wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead,
you rose up and ate bread."
{12:22} He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept;
for I said, 'Who knows whether the LORD will not be gracious to me,
that the child may live?' {12:23} But now he is dead, why should I
fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not
return to me."
{12:24} David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and
lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD
loved him; {12:25} and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and
he named him Jedidiah, for the LORD's sake. {12:26} Now Joab fought
against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
{12:27} Joab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought
against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters. {12:28} Now
therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against
the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my
name."
{12:29} David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah,
and fought against it, and took it. {12:30} He took the crown of their
king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it
were precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought out
the spoil of the city, exceeding much. {12:31} He brought out the
people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron
picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick
kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David
and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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