2 Samuel 11:15

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In the letter, David wrote, 'Put Uriah at the front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and killed.'

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  • 2 Sam 12:9 : 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in His eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites!
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
  • Jer 20:13 : 13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked.
  • 1 Sam 18:17 : 17 Saul said to David, 'Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage, but you must serve me bravely and fight the LORD’s battles.' For Saul thought, 'I will not raise my hand against him; let the Philistines do that.'
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 Saul thought, 'I will give her to him so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.' So Saul said to David, 'Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.'
  • 1 Sam 18:25 : 25 Saul replied, 'Say to David, "The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies."' Saul’s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.
  • 2 Sam 11:17 : 17 When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s men fell in battle, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

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  • 2 Sam 11:5-14
    10 verses
    91%

    5The woman conceived and sent a message to David, saying, 'I am pregnant.'

    6So David sent word to Joab, 'Send me Uriah the Hittite,' and Joab sent Uriah to David.

    7When Uriah came to him, David asked about Joab’s well-being, the well-being of the troops, and the condition of the war.

    8Then David said to Uriah, 'Go down to your house and wash your feet.' So Uriah left the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

    9But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house.

    10When they told David, 'Uriah did not go down to his house,' David said to Uriah, 'Haven’t you just come from a journey? Why didn’t you go home?'

    11Uriah said to David, 'The Ark, Israel, and Judah are staying in tents, and my lord Joab and the king’s servants are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surely as you live and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!'

    12Then David said to Uriah, 'Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.' So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

    13David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and David made him drunk. In the evening, Uriah went out to lie on his mat among his master's servants but did not go home.

    14The next morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

  • 2 Sam 11:16-27
    12 verses
    86%

    16As Joab kept watch over the city, he positioned Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.

    17When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s men fell in battle, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

    18Joab sent David a full report of the battle.

    19He instructed the messenger, 'When you finish delivering the report of the battle to the king,

    20if the king becomes angry and asks, "Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

    21Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman drop a millstone on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?" then say to him, "Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead."'

    22The messenger set out, and when he arrived, he reported to David everything Joab had sent him to say.

    23The messenger said to David, 'The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate.'

    24Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.

    25David said to the messenger, 'Say this to Joab: Don’t let this thing upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Press your attack against the city and destroy it. Encourage him.'

    26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

    27After the mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-11
    3 verses
    78%

    9Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in His eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites!

    10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

    11This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

  • 2 Sam 12:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14However, because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will surely die.'

    15After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became ill.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    75%

    15Then David called one of his young men and said, 'Come here and strike him down.' So he struck him, and he died.

  • 2 Sam 11:3
    74%

    3David sent someone to inquire about the woman, and it was reported to him, 'Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?'

  • Jer 26:23
    74%

    23They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with the sword and threw his body into the burial place of the common people.

  • 1 Chr 11:41
    73%

    41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of Ahlai,

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    73%

    15When David was in Edom and Joab, the commander of the army, went up to bury the dead, they killed every male in Edom.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    72%

    1In the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab along with his servants and all of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David stayed in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    72%

    31The king said to him, 'Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and my father's house the guilt of the blood that Joab shed without cause.

  • 2 Sam 23:39
    72%

    39and Uriah the Hittite. There were thirty-seven in all.

  • Jer 26:21
    70%

    21When King Jehoiakim, all his mighty men, and all the officials heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But Uriah heard about it, and he was afraid, so he fled and went to Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    70%

    5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    70%

    7When David heard of this, he sent Joab and all the army of mighty warriors.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Joab said, 'I cannot linger here with you.' So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive, hanging in the oak tree.

    15Ten of Joab’s young armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 20:11
    69%

    11One of Joab's men stood by Amasa and said, "Whoever is loyal to Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!"

  • 1 Kgs 2:25
    69%

    25Then King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who struck down Adonijah, and he died.

  • Jer 18:21
    69%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • 2 Sam 3:26
    69%

    26Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David knew nothing about it.

  • 1 Sam 19:15
    69%

    15Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, 'Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him.'

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    68%

    16The king said, 'You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and your whole family.'

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8When David heard this, he sent Joab and the entire army of mighty warriors.

  • 2 Sam 3:30
    68%

    30(Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

  • 1 Sam 26:10
    68%

    10David also said, "As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

  • 1 Kgs 2:5
    68%

    5Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—how he killed the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He shed their blood as if in war during a time of peace, staining his belt and sandals with the blood.