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2 Samuel 11:1
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And it came to pass, after the year was expired,
at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants
with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged
Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:2 |
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And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that
David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and
from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful
to look upon. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:3 |
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And David sent and enquired after the woman.
And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah
the Hittite? |
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| 2 Samuel 11:4 |
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And David 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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| 2 Samuel 11:5 |
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And the woman conceived, and sent and told David,
and said, I am with child. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:6 |
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And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah
the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:7 |
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And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded
of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:8 |
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And David 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 meat from the king. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:9 |
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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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| 2 Samuel 11:10 |
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And when they had told David, saying, Uriah
went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy
journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? |
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| 2 Samuel 11:11 |
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And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel,
and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are
encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink,
and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do
this thing. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:12 |
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And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also,
and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and
the morrow. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:13 |
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And when David 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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| 2 Samuel 11:14 |
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And it came to pass in the morning, that David
wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:15 |
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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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| 2 Samuel 11:16 |
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And it came to pass, when Joab observed the
city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:17 |
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And the men of the city went out, and fought
with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah
the Hittite died also. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:18 |
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Then Joab sent and told David all the things
concerning the war; |
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| 2 Samuel 11:19 |
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And charged the messenger, saying, When thou
hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, |
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| 2 Samuel 11:20 |
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And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and
he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight?
knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? |
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| 2 Samuel 11:21 |
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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?
did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died
in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite
is dead also. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:22 |
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So the messenger went, and came and shewed David
all that Joab had sent him for. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:23 |
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And the messenger said unto David, Surely the
men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon
them even unto the entering of the gate. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:24 |
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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. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:25 |
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Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt
thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth
one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow
it: and encourage thou him. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:26 |
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah
her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. |
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| 2 Samuel 11:27 |
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And when the mourning was past, David sent and
fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the
thing that David had done displeased the LORD. |
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