2 Samuel 11:14

American Standard Version (1901)

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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  • 1 Kgs 21:8-9 : 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, [and] that dwelt with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst curse God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.
  • Ps 19:13 : 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins] ; Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
  • Jer 9:1-4 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  • Mic 7:3-5 : 3 Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together. 4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity. 5 Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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  • 2 Sam 11:15-27
    13 verses
    91%

    15And 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.

    16And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men were.

    17And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, 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 charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,

    20it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

    21who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

    22So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

    23And the messenger said unto David, The men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entrance of the gate.

    24And the shooters shot at thy servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

    25Then 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.

    26And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.

    27And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.

  • 2 Sam 11:1-13
    13 verses
    87%

    1And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [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 at Jerusalem.

    2And it came to pass at eventide, 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 bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

    3And David send and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

    4And 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.

    5And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

    6And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

    7And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

    8And 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 food] from the king.

    9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

    10And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?

    11And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; 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 thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

    12And 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.

    13And 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.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-11
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    76%

    9Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

    10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

    11Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

  • 2 Sam 12:14-16
    3 verses
    75%

    14Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

    15And Nathan departed unto his house. And Jehovah struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

    16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

  • 1 Chr 11:41
    74%

    41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

  • 2 Sam 24:11
    72%

    11And when David rose up in the morning, the word of Jehovah came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

  • Jer 26:23
    71%

    23and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    71%

    15And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him, so that he died.

  • 2 Sam 3:26
    71%

    26And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

  • 2 Sam 23:39
    70%

    39Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
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    7And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    70%

    15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    69%

    5because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    69%

    31And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
    68%

    24Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    68%

    1And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.

  • Jer 26:21
    67%

    21and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

  • 2 Sam 14:31
    67%

    31Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?

  • 1 Chr 17:3
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    3And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

  • 1 Sam 25:22
    67%

    22God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.

  • 2 Sam 20:11
    67%

    11And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He that favoreth Joab, and he that is for David, let him follow Joab.