# 2 Samuel 11

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-samuel/11

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. At the turn of the year, when kings set out, David sent Joab, his servants with him, and all Israel; they devastated the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, while David remained in Jerusalem.
2. One evening David arose from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king's house. From the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.
3. David sent and inquired about the woman. Someone said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
4. David sent messengers and took her; she came to him, and he lay with her—for she had purified herself from her uncleanness—and she returned to her house.
5. The woman conceived, sent and told David, "I am pregnant."
6. David sent to Joab, "Send Uriah the Hittite to me," and Joab sent Uriah to David.
7. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab fared, how the people fared, and how the war fared.
8. David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." Uriah left the king's house, followed by a gift from the king.
9. Uriah lay at the entrance of the king's house with all his master's servants, but did not go down to his house.
10. When they informed David that Uriah had not gone 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. Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and my lord's servants camp across the open field. How then could I enter 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."
12. David said to Uriah, "Stay here today too, and tomorrow I will send you away." Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13. David called him, and he ate and drank in his presence; he got him drunk. That evening he went out to lie on his bed with his master's servants, but did not go down to his house.
14. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15. He wrote in the letter, saying, "Place Uriah in the face of the hardest battle, and you return from behind him, that he be struck and die."
16. It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew valiant men were there.
17. The men of the city went out and fought Joab, and some of the people, David's servants, fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.
18. Joab sent and reported to David all the matters of the battle.
19. He commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished reporting all the matters of the war to the king,"
20. It will be, if the king's anger rises and he says to you, “Why did you draw near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they shoot from the wall?”
21. Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did a woman not hurl a millstone piece onto him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you draw near to the wall? Then say, "Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
22. The messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.
23. The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us, came out toward us into the field, and we bore down on them up to the gate entrance."
24. The archers shot at your servants from the wall, some of the king's servants died, and also your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.
25. David said to the messenger, "Tell Joab, 'Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword consumes one just as another; strengthen your battle against the city and demolish it.' Strengthen him."
26. Uriah's wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, and she lamented her husband.
27. When the mourning passed, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in Yahweh's eyes.

## Nearby chapters

[2 Samuel 10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-samuel/10.md)
[2 Samuel 12](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-samuel/12.md)

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