2 Samuel 11

1E aconteceu à volta de um ano, no tempo que saem os reis à guerra, que Davi enviou a Joabe, e a seus servos com ele, e a todo Israel; e destruíram aos amonitas, e puseram cerco a Rabá: mas Davi se ficou em Jerusalém. 2E aconteceu que levantando-se Davi de sua cama à hora da tarde, passeava-se pelo terraço da casa real, quando viu desde o terraço uma mulher que se estava lavando, a qual era muito bela. 3E enviou Davi a preguntar por aquela mulher, e disseram-lhe: Aquela é Bate-Seba filha de Eliã, mulher de Urias Heteu. 4E Davi enviou mensageiros, e tomou-a: e assim que entrou a ele, ele dormiu com ela. Purificou-se logo ela de sua imundícia, e se voltou à sua casa. 5E concebeu a mulher, e enviou-o a fazer saber a Davi, dizendo: Eu estou grávida. 6Então Davi enviou a dizer a Joabe: Envia-me a Urias Heteu. E enviou-o Joabe a Davi. 7E quando Urias veio a ele, perguntou-lhe Davi pela saúde de Joabe, e pela saúde do povo, e também da guerra. 8Depois disse Davi a Urias: Desce à tua casa, e lava teus pés. E saindo Urias de casa do rei, veio atrás dele um presente real. 9Mas Urias dormiu à porta da casa do rei com todos os servos de seu senhor, e não desceu à sua casa. 10E fizeram saber isto a Davi, dizendo: Urias não desceu à sua casa. E disse Davi a Urias: Não vieste de caminho? Por que, pois, não desceste à tua casa? 11E Urias respondeu a Davi: A arca, e Israel e Judá, estão debaixo de tendas; e meu senhor Joabe, e os servos de meu senhor sobre a face do campo: e havia eu de entrar em minha casa para comer e beber, e a dormir com minha mulher? Por vida tua, e pela vida de tua alma, que eu não farei tal coisa. 12E Davi disse a Urias: Fica-te aqui ainda hoje, e amanhã te despedirei. E ficou Urias em Jerusalém aquele dia e o seguinte. 13E Davi o convidou, e fez-lhe comer e beber diante de si, até embriagá-lo. E ele saiu à tarde para dormir em sua cama com os servos de seu senhor; mas não desceu à sua casa. 14Vinda a manhã, escreveu Davi a Joabe uma carta, a qual enviou por mão de Urias. 15E escreveu na carta, dizendo: Ponde a Urias diante da força da batalha, e desamparai-o, para que seja ferido e morra. 16Assim foi que quando Joabe cercou a cidade, pôs a Urias no lugar de onde sabia que estavam os homens mais valentes. 17E saindo logo os da cidade, lutaram com Joabe, e caíram alguns do povo dos servos de Davi; e morreu também Urias Heteu. 18Então enviou Joabe, e fez saber a Davi todos os negócios da guerra. 19E mandou ao mensageiro, dizendo: Quando acabares de contar ao rei todos os negócios da guerra, 20Se o rei começar a irar-se, e te disser: Por que vos aproximastes à cidade lutando? Não sabíeis que eles costumam atirar do muro? 21Quem feriu a Abimeleque filho de Jerubusete? Não lançou uma mulher do muro um pedaço de uma roda de moinho, e morreu em Tebes? Por que vos aproximastes ao muro? Então tu lhe dirás: Também teu servo Urias Heteu é morto. 22E foi o mensageiro, e chegando, contou a Davi todas as coisas a que Joabe lhe havia enviado. 23E disse o mensageiro a Davi: Prevaleceram contra nós os homens, que saíram a nós ao campo, bem que nós lhes fizemos retroceder até a entrada da porta; 24Porém os flecheiros atiraram contra teus servos desde o muro, e morreram alguns dos servos do rei; e morreu também teu servo Urias Heteu. 25E Davi disse ao mensageiro: Dirás assim a Joabe: Não tenhas pesar disto, que de igual e semelhante maneira costuma consumir a espada: esforça a batalha contra a cidade, até que a rendas. E tu conforta-o. 26E ouvindo a mulher de Urias que seu marido Urias era morto, fez luto por seu marido. 27E passado o luto, enviou Davi e recolheu-a à sua casa: e foi ela sua mulher, e deu-lhe à luz um filho. Mas isto que Davi havia feito, foi desagradável aos olhos do SENHOR.

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.