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1 Samuel 4

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¹ So Joab and the people who were with him approached the battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

² When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. So Joab returned from battling against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

³ When the Arameans saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered together.

⁴ Hadadezer sent word and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the River [Euphrates]; and they came to Helam; and Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer led them.

⁵ When David was informed, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. Then the Arameans assembled in battle formation to meet David and fought against him.

⁶ But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 horsemen, and struck Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there.

⁷ When all the kings serving Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans (Syrians) were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.

⁸ Then it happened in the spring,[1] at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all [the fighting men of] Israel, and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

⁹ One evening David got up from his couch and was walking on the [flat][2] roof of the king's palace, and from there he saw a woman bathing; and she was very beautiful in appearance.

¹⁰ David sent word and inquired about the woman. Someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

¹¹ David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he lay with her. And[3] when she was purified from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

¹² The woman conceived; and she sent word and told David, "I am pregnant."

¹³ Then David sent word to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

¹⁴ When Uriah came to him, David asked him[4] how Joab was, how the people were doing, and how the war was progressing.

¹⁵ Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet (spend time at home)." Uriah left the king's palace, and a[5] gift from the king was sent out after him.

¹⁶ But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's palace with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

¹⁷ When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not [just] come from a [long] journey? Why did you not go to your house?"

¹⁸ Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in huts (temporary shelters), and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing."

¹⁹ Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today as well, and tomorrow I will let you leave." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

²⁰ Now David called him [to dinner], and he ate and drank with him, so that he[6] made Uriah drunk; in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, and [still] did not go down to his house.

²¹ In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it[7] with Uriah.

²² He wrote in the letter, "Put Uriah in the front line of the heaviest fighting and leave him, so that he may be struck down and die."

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1	So Joab and the people who were with him approached the battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.
2	When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. So Joab returned from battling against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.
3	When the Arameans saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered together.
4	Hadadezer sent word and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the River [Euphrates]; and they came to Helam; and Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer led them.
5	When David was informed, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. Then the Arameans assembled in battle formation to meet David and fought against him.
6	But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 horsemen, and struck Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there.
7	When all the kings serving Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans (Syrians) were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
8	Then it happened in the spring,[1] at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all [the fighting men of] Israel, and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
9	One evening David got up from his couch and was walking on the [flat][2] roof of the king's palace, and from there he saw a woman bathing; and she was very beautiful in appearance.
10	David sent word and inquired about the woman. Someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
11	David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he lay with her. And[3] when she was purified from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.
12	The woman conceived; and she sent word and told David, "I am pregnant."
13	Then David sent word to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.
14	When Uriah came to him, David asked him[4] how Joab was, how the people were doing, and how the war was progressing.
15	Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet (spend time at home)." Uriah left the king's palace, and a[5] gift from the king was sent out after him.
16	But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's palace with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
17	When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not [just] come from a [long] journey? Why did you not go to your house?"
18	Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in huts (temporary shelters), and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing."
19	Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today as well, and tomorrow I will let you leave." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
20	Now David called him [to dinner], and he ate and drank with him, so that he[6] made Uriah drunk; in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, and [still] did not go down to his house.
21	In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it[7] with Uriah.
22	He wrote in the letter, "Put Uriah in the front line of the heaviest fighting and leave him, so that he may be struck down and die."

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