2 Samuel 11:20

World English Bible (2000)

it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?

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  • 2 Sam 11:21-25
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    21 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"

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

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

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

    25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him."

  • 2 Sam 11:14-19
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    14 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

    15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die."

    16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

    17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

    18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

    19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,

  • 2 Sam 11:6-7
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    6 David sent to Joab, [saying], "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David.

    7 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

  • 2 Sam 11:9-12
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    9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.

    10 When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven't you come from a journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"

    11 Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; 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 you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!"

    12 David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.

  • 2 Sam 20:15-16
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    15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

    16 Then a wise woman cried out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"

  • Deut 20:12
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    12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

  • 1 Sam 20:20
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    20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.

  • 2 Sam 12:9-10
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    9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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

  • Nah 2:5
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    5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

  • Deut 20:10
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    10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

  • 1 Sam 17:28-29
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    28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle."

    29 David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

  • Ezek 26:9
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    9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • 2 Kgs 11:8
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    8 You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in."

  • 2 Sam 18:13
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    13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me."

  • 2 Sam 15:14
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    14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."

  • 1 Chr 20:1
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    1 It happened, 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 stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    69%

    1 It happened, 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 stayed at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

  • 2 Sam 3:24
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    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

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

  • 2 Chr 18:33
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    33 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded."

  • Deut 20:20
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    20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

  • 1 Kgs 20:37
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    37 Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

  • Josh 8:5
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    5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

  • 2 Sam 3:26
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    26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn't know it.

  • 1 Sam 23:3
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    3 David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • 2 Sam 14:31
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    31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"