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1해가 돌아와서 왕들의 출전할 때가 되매 다윗이 요압과 그 신복과 온 이스라엘 군대를 보내니 저희가 암몬 자손을 멸하고 랍바를 에워쌌고 다윗은 예루살렘에 그대로 있으니라 2저녁 때에 다윗이 그 침상에서 일어나 왕궁 지붕 위에서 거닐다가 그곳에서 보니 한 여인이 목욕을 하는데 심히 아름다워 보이는지라 3다윗이 보내어 그 여인을 알아보게 하였더니 고하되 그는 엘리암의 딸이요 헷 사람 우리아의 아내 밧세바가 아니니이까 4다윗이 사자를 보내어 저를 자기에게로 데려 오게 하고 저가 그 부정함을 깨끗케 하였으므로 더불어 동침하매 저가 자기 집으로 돌아가니라 5여인이 잉태하매 보내어 다윗에게 고하여 가로되 내가 잉태하였나이다 하니라 6다윗이 요압에게 기별하여 헷 사람 우리아를 내게 보내라 하매 요압이 우리아를 다윗에게로 보내니 7우리아가 다윗에게 이르매 다윗이 요압의 안부와 군사의 안부와 싸움의 어떠한 것을 묻고 8저가 또 우리아에게 이르되 네 집으로 내려가서 발을 씻으라 하니 우리아가 왕궁에서 나가매 왕의 식물이 뒤따라 가니라 9그러나 우리아는 집으로 내려가지 아니하고 왕궁 문에서 그 주의 신복들로 더불어 잔지라 10혹이 다윗에게 고하여 가로되 우리아가 그 집으로 내려가지 아니하였나이다 다윗이 우리아에게 이르되 네가 길 갔다가 돌아온 것이 아니냐 어찌하여 네 집으로 내려가지 아니하였느냐 11우리아가 다윗에게 고하되 언약궤와 이스라엘과 유다가 영채 가운데 유하고 내 주 요압과 내 왕의 신복들이 바깥 들에 유진하였거늘 내가 어찌 내 집으로 가서 먹고 마시고 내 처와 같이 자리이까 내가 이 일을 행치 아니하기로 왕의 사심과 왕의 혼의 사심을 가리켜 맹세하나이다 12다윗이 우리아에게 이르되 오늘도 여기 있으라 내일은 내가 너를 보내리라 우리아가 그 날에 예루살렘에 유하니라 이튿날 13다윗이 저를 불러서 저로 그 앞에서 먹고 마시고 취하게 하니 저녁 때에 저가 나가서 그 주의 신복으로 더불어 침상에 눕고 그 집으로 내려가지 아니하니라 14아침이 되매 다윗이 편지를 써서 우리아의 손에 부쳐 요압에게 보내니 15그 편지에 써서 이르기를 너희가 우리아를 맹렬한 싸움에 앞세워 두고 너희는 뒤로 물러가서 저로 맞아 죽게 하라 하였더라 16요압이 그 성을 살펴 용사들의 있는 줄을 아는 그곳에 우리아를 두니 17성 사람들이 나와서 요압으로 더불어 싸울 때에 다윗의 신복 중 몇 사람이 엎드러지고 헷 사람 우리아도 죽으니라 18요압이 보내어 전쟁의 모든 일을 다윗에게 고할새 19그 사자에게 명하여 가로되 전쟁의 모든 일을 네가 왕께 고하기를 마친 후에 20혹시 왕이 노하여 네게 말씀하기를 너희가 어찌하여 성에 그처럼 가까이 가서 싸웠느냐 저희가 성 위에서 쏠 줄을 알지 못하였느냐 21여룹베셋의 아들 아비멜렉을 쳐 죽인 자가 누구냐 여인 하나가 성에서 맷돌 윗짝을 그 위에 던지매 저가 데벳스에서 죽지 아니하였느냐 어찌하여 성에 가까이 갔더냐 하시거든 네가 말하기를 왕의 종 헷 사람 우리아도 죽었나이다 하라 22사자가 가서 다윗에게 이르러 요압의 모든 보낸 일을 고하여 23가로되 그 사람들이 우리보다 승하여 우리를 향하여 들로 나온고로 우리가 저희를 쳐서 성문 어귀까지 미쳤더니 24활 쏘는 자들이 성 위에서 왕의 신복들을 향하여 쏘매 왕의 신복 중 몇사람이 죽고 왕의 종 헷 사람 우리아도 죽었나이다 25다윗이 사자에게 이르되 너는 요압에게 이같이 말하기를 이 일로 걱정하지 말라 칼은 이 사람이나 저 사람이나 죽이느니라 그 성을 향하어 더욱 힘써 싸워 함락시키라 하여 너는 저를 담대케 하라 하니라 26우리아의 처가 그 남편 우리아의 죽었음을 듣고 호곡하니라 27그 장사를 마치매 다윗이 보내어 저를 궁으로 데려 오니 저가 그 처가 되어 아들을 낳으니라 다윗의 소위가 여호와 보시기에 악하였더라

1At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, 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. 2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look at. 3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4David 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. 5The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” 6David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David. 7When Uriah had come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. 8David 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. 9But 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. 10When 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?” 11Uriah 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!” 12David 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. 13When 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. 14In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15He 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.” 16When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17The 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. 18Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king, 20it 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? 21who 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.’” 22So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23The 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. 24The 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.” 25Then 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.” 26When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. 27When 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 Yahweh.

1En het geschiedde met de wederkomst van het jaar, ter tijde als de koningen uittrekken, dat David Joab, en zijn knechten met hem, en gans Israel henenzond, dat zij de kinderen Ammons verderven, en Rabba belegeren zouden. Doch David bleef te Jeruzalem. 2Zo geschiedde het tegen den avondtijd, dat David van zijn leger opstond, en wandelde op het dak van het koningshuis, en zag van het dak een vrouw, zich wassende; deze vrouw nu was zeer schoon van aanzien. 3En David zond henen, en ondervraagde naar deze vrouw; en men zeide: Is dat niet Bathseba, de dochter van Eliam, de huisvrouw van Uria, den Hethiet? 4Toen zond David boden henen, en liet haar halen. En als zij tot hem ingekomen was, lag hij bij haar, (zij nu had zich van haar onreinigheid gezuiverd), daarna keerde zij weder naar haar huis. 5En die vrouw werd zwanger; zo zond zij henen, en liet David weten, en zeide: Ik ben zwanger geworden. 6Toen zond David tot Joab, zeggende: Zend Uria, den Hethiet, tot mij. En Joab zond Uria tot David. 7Als nu Uria tot hem kwam, zo vraagde David naar den welstand van Joab, en naar den welstand des volks, en naar den welstand des krijgs. 8Daarna zeide David tot Uria: Ga af naar uw huis, en was uw voeten. En toen Uria uit des konings huis uitging, volgde hem een gerecht des konings achterna. 9Maar Uria legde zich neder voor de deur van des konings huis, met al de knechten zijns heren; en hij ging niet af in zijn huis. 10En zij gaven het David te kennen, zeggende: Uria is niet afgegaan in zijn huis. Toen zeide David tot Uria: Komt gij niet van de reis? Waarom zijt gij niet afgegaan in uw huis? 11En Uria zeide tot David: De ark, en Israel, en Juda blijven in de tenten; en mijn heer Joab, en de knechten mijns heren zijn gelegerd op het open veld, en zou ik in mijn huis gaan, om te eten en te drinken, en bij mijn huisvrouw te liggen? Zo waarachtig als gij leeft en uw ziel leeft, indien ik deze zaak doen zal! 12Toen zeide David tot Uria: Blijf ook heden hier, zo zal ik u morgen afzenden. Alzo bleef Uria te Jeruzalem, dien dag en den anderen dag. 13En David nodigde hem, zodat hij voor zijn aangezicht at en dronk, en hij maakte hem dronken. Daarna ging hij in den avond uit, om zich neder te leggen op zijn leger, met zijns heren knechten, maar ging niet af in zijn huis. 14Des morgens nu geschiedde het, dat David een brief schreef aan Joab; en hij zond dien door de hand van Uria. 15En hij schreef in dien brief, zeggende: Stel Uria vooraan tegenover den sterksten strijd, en keer van achter hem af, opdat hij geslagen worde en sterve. 16Zo geschiedde het, als Joab op de stad gelet had, dat hij Uria stelde aan de plaats, waarvan hij wist, dat aldaar strijdbare mannen waren. 17Als nu de mannen der stad uittogen en met Joab streden, vielen er van het volk, van Davids knechten, en Uria, de Hethiet, stierf ook. 18Toen zond Joab heen, en liet David den gansen handel van dezen strijd weten. 19En hij beval den bode, zeggende: Als gij zult geeindigd hebben den gansen handel van dezen strijd tot den koning uit te spreken; 20En het zal geschieden, indien de grimmigheid des konings opkomt, en hij tot u zegt: Waarom zijt gij zo na aan de stad gekomen om te strijden? Wist gij niet, dat zij van den muur zouden schieten? 21Wie sloeg Abimelech, den zoon van Jerubbeseth? Wierp niet een vrouw een stuk van een molensteen op hem van den muur, dat hij te Thebez stierf? Waarom zijt gij tot den muur genaderd? Dan zult gij zeggen: Uw knecht, Uria, de Hethiet, is ook dood. 22En de bode ging heen, en kwam in, en gaf David te kennen alles, waar hem Joab om uitgezonden had. 23En de bode zeide tot David: Die mannen zijn ons zeker te machtig geweest, en zijn tot ons uitgetogen in het veld; maar wij zijn tegen hen aan geweest tot aan de deur der poort. 24Toen schoten de schutters van den muur af op uw knechten, dat er van des konings knechten dood gebleven zijn; en uw knecht, Uria, de Hethiet, is ook dood. 25Toen zeide David tot den bode: Zo zult gij tot Joab zeggen: Laat deze zaak niet kwaad zijn in uw ogen, want het zwaard verteert zowel dezen als genen; versterk uw strijd tegen de stad, en verstoor ze; versterk hem alzo. 26Als nu de huisvrouw van Uria hoorde, dat haar man Uria dood was, zo droeg zij leed over haar heer. 27En als de rouw was overgegaan, zond David heen, en nam haar in zijn huis; en zij werd hem ter vrouwe, en baarde hem een zoon. Doch deze zaak, die David gedaan had, was kwaad in de ogen des HEEREN.