2 Samuel 11:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

But Vriah slept at the doore of the Kings palace with all the seruants of his lord, and went not downe to his house.

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  • Job 5:12-14 : 12 He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish. 14 They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.

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

    10Then they tolde Dauid, saying, Vriah went not downe to his house: and Dauid saide vnto Vriah, Commest thou not from thy iourney? why didst thou not go downe to thine house?

    11Then Vriah answered Dauid, The Arke and Israel, and Iudah dwell in tents: and my lord Ioab and the seruants of my lord abide in the open fields: shal I then go into mine house to eate and drinke, & lie with my wife? by thy life, and by the life of thy soule, I will not do this thing.

    12Then Dauid sayd vnto Vriah, Tary yet this day, & to morow I will send thee away. So Vriah abode in Ierusalem that day, and the morowe.

    13Then Dauid called him, and hee did eate and drinke before him, & he made him drunke: and at euen he went out to lie on his couch with the seruants of his Lorde, but went not downe to his house.

    14And on the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.

    15And he wrote thus in the letter, Put ye Vriah in the forefront of the strength of the battell, and recule ye backe from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

    16So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Vriah vnto a place, where he knewe that strong men were.

    17And the men of the citie came out, and fought with Ioab: and there fell of the people of the seruants of Dauid, and Vriah the Hittite also dyed.

    18Then Ioab sent and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre,

  • 2 Sam 11:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    6Then Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Vriah the Hittite; Ioab sent Vriah to Dauid.

    7And when Vriah came vnto him, Dauid demanded him how Ioab did, and howe the people fared, and how the warre prospered.

    8Afterward Dauid said to Vriah, Go downe to thine house, and wash thy feete. So Vriah departed out of the Kings palace, and the king sent a present after him.

  • 2 Sam 11:1-4
    4 verses
    76%

    1And when the yeere was expired in the time when Kinges goe forth to battell, Dauid sent Ioab, and his seruantes with him, and all Israel, who destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but Dauid remayned in Ierusalem.

    2And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.

    3And Dauid sent and inquired what woman it was: and one sayde, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to Vriah the Hittite?

    4Then Dauid sent messengers, & tooke her away: and she came vnto him & he lay with her: (now she was purified from her vncleannes) & she returned vnto her house.

  • 2 Sam 11:22-27
    6 verses
    75%

    22So the messenger went, and came & shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for.

    23And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Certainely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, but we pursued them vnto the entring of the gate.

    24But the shooters shot from ye wall against thy seruants, and some of the Kings seruants be dead: & thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.

    25Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing trouble thee: for the sworde deuoureth one as well as another: make thy battell more strong against the citie & destroy it, & encourage thou him.

    26And when the wife of Vriah heard that her husband Vriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.

    27So when the mourning was past, Dauid sent and tooke her into his house, and shee became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but ye thing that Dauid had done, displeased the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the Lord, to doe euill in his sight? Thou hast killed Vriah the Hittite with ye sworde, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slaine him with the sworde of the children of Ammon.

    10Now therefore the sworde shall neuer depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Vriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

    11Thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will rayse vp euil against thee out of thine owne house, and will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this sunne.

  • 2 Sam 12:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15So Nathan departed vnto his house: and the Lord stroke the childe that Vriahs wife bare vnto Dauid, and it was sicke.

    16Dauid therefore besought God for the childe, and fasted and went in, and lay all night vpon the earth.

    17Then the Elders of his house arose to come vnto him, & to cause him to rise from the groud: but he would not, neither did he eate meate with them.

  • 1 Chr 11:41
    73%

    41Vriah the Hittite, Zabad the sonne of Ahlai,

  • 2 Sam 23:39
    72%

    39Vriiah the Hittite, thirtie and seuen in all.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    71%

    5Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of his life, saue onely in the matter of Vriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Kgs 1:15
    70%

    15So Bath-sheba went in vnto the King into the chamber, and the King was verie olde, and Abishag the Shunammite ministred vnto ye King.

  • Ps 132:3
    70%

    3I will not enter into the tabernacle of mine house, nor come vpon my pallet or bed,

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    70%

    3When Dauid then came to his house to Ierusalem, the King tooke the ten women his concubines, that hee had left behinde him to keepe the house, and put them in warde, and fed them, but lay no more with them: but they were enclosed vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhode.

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

    27Is this thing done by my lord the King, & thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruant, who should sitte on the throne of my lorde the King after him?

    28Then King Dauid answered, and saide, Call me Bath-sheba; shee came into ye Kings presence, and stoode before the King.

  • Judg 3:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24And when he was gone out, his seruantes came: who seeing that the doores of the parler were locked, they sayd, Surely he doeth his easement in his sommer chamber.

    25And they taryed till they were ashamed: & seeing he opened not the doores of the parler, they tooke the key, and opened them, & behold, their lord was fallen dead on the earth.

  • Jer 26:23
    70%

    23And they fet Vriiah out of Egypt, and brought him vnto Iehoiakim the King, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead bodie into the graues of the children of the people.

  • 2 Sam 15:17
    69%

    17And the King went forth & all the people after him, and taried in a place farre off.

  • 2 Sam 7:4
    69%

    4And the same night the worde of the Lorde came vnto Nathan, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 7:11
    69%

    11And the porters cryed and declared to the Kings house within.

  • 2 Sam 11:20
    69%

    20And if the kings anger arise, so that he say vnto thee, Wherefore approched ye vnto the citie to fight? knewe ye not that they would hurle from the wall?

  • 1 Chr 17:1
    69%

    1Nowe afterward when Dauid dwelt in his house, he saide to Nathan the Prophet, Beholde, I dwell in an house of cedar trees, but the Arke of the Lordes couenant remaineth vnder curtaines.

  • 1 Kgs 2:10
    69%

    10So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.

  • 2 Sam 7:1
    69%

    1Afterwarde when the King sate in his house and the Lorde had giuen him rest rounde about from all his enemies,

  • 2 Sam 7:18
    68%

    18Then King Dauid went in, and sate before the Lorde, and sayde, Who am I, O Lorde God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

  • 1 Chr 17:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3And the same night euen the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

    4Goe, and tell Dauid my seruant, Thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not buylde me an house to dwell in:

  • Jer 26:21
    68%

    21Nowe when Iehoiakim the King with all his men of power, and all the princes heard his wordes, the King sought to slay him. But when Vriiah heard it, he was afraide and fled, and went into Egypt.