2 Samuel 11:18

Good News Translation

Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Joab sent someone to report to David all the details of the battle.

Hebrew Names Version
Then Yo'av sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

King James Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Lexham English Bible
Joab sent and told David all of the news of the battle.

English Standard Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.

New Century Version
Then Joab sent David a complete account of the war.

New English Translation
Then Joab sent a full battle report to David.

Amplified Bible
Then Joab sent word and informed David of all the events of the war.

New American Standard Bible
Then Joab sent a messenger and reported to David all the events of the war.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioab sent and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joab sent and told David all the events of the war.

Contemporary English Version
Joab sent a messenger to tell David everything that was happening in the war.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yo'av sent a message to David reporting all the news concerning the war,

Darby Translation
Then Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joab sent a report to David about what happened in the battle.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Joab sent and told David all that took place in the battle:

Literal Translation
And Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sent Ioab, and caused to tell ye kynge all the matter concernynge the battayll,

American Standard Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Bible in Basic English
Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the thinges concerning the warre:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

King James Version (1611)
Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joab sent, and reported to David all the events of the war, so as to tell them to the king.

English Revised Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Berean Standard Bible
Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Joab sente, and telde alle the wordis of the batel;

Young's Literal Translation
And Joab sendeth and declareth to David all the matters of the war,

Update Bible Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

World English Bible
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

New King James Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,

New Living Translation
Then Joab sent a battle report to David.

New Life Bible
Then Joab sent a man with news to David to tell him all about the war.

New Revised Standard
Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joab sent and told David all the news of the battle;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.

Revised Standard Version
Then Jo'ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;

THE MESSAGE
Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the messenger, "After you have given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he flares in anger, say, ‘And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah. ¹⁵ He wrote: "Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed." ¹⁶ So while Joab was besieging the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong. ¹⁷ The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah. ¹⁸ Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle, ¹⁹ and he instructed the messenger, "After you have told the king all about the battle, ²⁰ he may get angry and ask you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight them? Didn't you realize that they would shoot arrows from the walls? ²¹ Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?' If the king asks you this, tell him, ‘Your officer Uriah was also killed.'" ²² So the messenger went to David and told him what Joab had commanded him to say. ²³ He said, "Our enemies were stronger than we were and came out of the city to fight us in the open, but we drove them back to the city gate.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:8 - there came

Cross-References

Luke 3:35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Joab sent,.... Messengers to David, as soon as Uriah was killed:

and told David all the things concerning the war; how the siege had been carried on; what success they had had, good or ill; what their advantages and disadvantages; what men they had lost, and especially in one sally of the enemy upon them, for the sake of which the express was sent.