2 Samuel 11:9

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Job 5:12-14 : 12 He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.

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  • 2 Sam 11:10-18
    9 verses
    91%

    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.

    14And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

    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;

  • 2 Sam 11:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 11:1-4
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 11:22-27
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    75%

    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 12:9-11
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    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 12:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    17And the elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

  • 1 Chr 11:41
    73%

    41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

  • 2 Sam 23:39
    72%

    39Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    71%

    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 1:15
    70%

    15And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king.

  • Ps 132:3
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    3Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go up into my bed;

  • 2 Sam 20:3
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    3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed unto thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

    28Then king David answered and said, Call to me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

  • Judg 3:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.

    25And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

  • Jer 26:23
    70%

    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 15:17
    69%

    17And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they tarried in Beth-merhak.

  • 2 Sam 7:4
    69%

    4And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Jehovah came unto Nathan, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
    69%

    11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

  • 2 Sam 11:20
    69%

    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?

  • 1 Chr 17:1
    69%

    1And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah [dwelleth] under curtains.

  • 1 Kgs 2:10
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    10And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

  • 2 Sam 7:1
    69%

    1And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies round about,

  • 2 Sam 7:18
    68%

    18Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

  • 1 Chr 17:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

    4Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in:

  • Jer 26:21
    68%

    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: