2 Samuel 11:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

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  • 2 Sam 12:9 : 9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

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  • 2 Sam 11:6-16
    11 verses
    87%

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

    7 And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going.

    8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.

    9 But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

    10 And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?

    11 And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.

    12 And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.

    13 And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

    14 Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.

    15 And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.

    16 So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.

  • 2 Sam 11:20-27
    8 verses
    84%

    20 If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?

    21 Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.

    22 So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?

    23 And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.

    24 And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.

    25 Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

    26 And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.

    27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

  • 2 Sam 11:18
    82%

    18 Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

  • 1 Chr 11:41
    78%

    41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad, the son of Ahlai,

  • 2 Sam 23:39
    77%

    39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in number.

  • Jer 26:23
    74%

    23 And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

    10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

  • 2 Sam 11:3
    72%

    3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?

  • Jer 26:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:

    21 And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    71%

    7 And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    70%

    7 And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    70%

    15 And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    70%

    1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 12:15
    69%

    15 Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    69%

    15 And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.

  • 2 Sam 20:11
    69%

    11 And one of Joab's young men, taking his place at Amasa's side, said, Whoever is for Joab and for David, let him go after Joab!

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    69%

    15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • 2 Sam 12:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26 Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.

    27 And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • 2 Sam 3:26
    68%

    26 And when Joab had come out from David, he sent men after Abner, and they overtook him at the water-spring of Sirah, and made him come back with them: but David had no knowledge of it.

  • 2 Sam 2:17
    68%

    17 And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    68%

    31 But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    68%

    31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
    68%

    34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    68%

    1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste.

  • 2 Sam 3:30
    67%

    30 So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

  • 1 Kgs 2:34
    67%

    34 So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    67%

    5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Chr 21:4
    67%

    4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 10:13
    66%

    13 Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.