2 Samuel 11:6

THE MESSAGE

David then got in touch with Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab sent him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hethite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Hebrew Names Version
David sent to Yo'av, [saying], Send me Uriyah the Hittite. Yo'av sent Uriyah to David.

King James Version
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Lexham English Bible
So David sent to Joab, "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

English Standard Version
So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David.

New Century Version
So David sent a message to Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." And Joab sent Uriah to David.

New English Translation
So David sent a message to Joab that said, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Amplified Bible
Then David sent word to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

New American Standard Bible
Then David sent word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Vriah the Hittite. And Ioab sent Vriah to Dauid.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Contemporary English Version
David sent a message to Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab sent Uriah

Complete Jewish Bible
David sent this order to Yo'av: "Send me Uriyah the Hitti." Yo'av sent Uriyah to David.

Darby Translation
And David sent to Joab [saying], Send me Urijah the Hittite. And Joab sent Urijah to David.

Easy-to-Read Version
David sent a message to Joab. "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

George Lamsa Translation
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Good News Translation
David then sent a message to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David.

Literal Translation
And David sent to Joab, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dauid sent vnto Ioab (sayege:) Sende me Vrias ye Hethite. And Ioab sent Vrias vnto Dauid.

American Standard Version
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Bible in Basic English
And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid sent to Ioab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Ioab sent Urias to Dauid.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David sent to Joab[, saying]: 'Send me Uriah the Hittite.' And Joab sent Uriah to David.

King James Version (1611)
And Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Ioab sent Uriah to Dauid.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Urias the Chettite; and Joab sent Urias to David.

English Revised Version
And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Berean Standard Bible
At this, David sent orders to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Dauid sente to Joab, and seide, Sende thou Vrye Ethei to me; and Joab sente Vrye to Dauid.

Young's Literal Translation
And David sendeth unto Joab, `Send unto me Uriah the Hittite,' and Joab sendeth Uriah unto David;

Update Bible Version
And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

World English Bible
David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent Uriah to David.

New King James Version
Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David.

New Living Translation
Then David sent word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David.

New Life Bible
Then David sent men to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

New Revised Standard
So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then sent David unto Joab, Send unto me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent Uriah unto David.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.

Revised Standard Version
So David sent word to Jo'ab, "Send me Uri'ah the Hittite." And Jo'ab sent Uri'ah to David.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Contextual Overview

⁶ David then got in touch with Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab sent him. ⁷When he arrived, David asked him for news from the front—how things were going with Joab and the troops and with the fighting. Then he said to Uriah, "Go home. Have a refreshing bath and a good night's rest." After Uriah left the palace, an informant of the king was sent after him. But Uriah didn't go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance, along with the king's servants. David was told that Uriah had not gone home. He asked Uriah, "Didn't you just come off a hard trip? So why didn't you go home?" Uriah replied to David, "The Chest is out there with the fighting men of Israel and Judah—in tents. My master Joab and his servants are roughing it out in the fields. So, how can I go home and eat and drink and enjoy my wife? On your life, I'll not do it!" "All right," said David, "have it your way. Stay for the day and I'll send you back tomorrow." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem the rest of the day. The next day David invited him to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. But in the evening Uriah again went out and slept with his master's servants. He didn't go home. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In the letter he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he's sure to be killed." So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where he knew there were fierce enemy fighters. When the city's defenders came out to fight Joab, some of David's soldiers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite. 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.'" Joab's messenger arrived in Jerusalem and gave the king a full report. He said, "The enemy was too much for us. They advanced on us in the open field, and we pushed them back to the city gate. But then arrows came hot and heavy on us from the city wall, and eighteen of the king's soldiers died." When the messenger completed his report of the battle, David got angry at Joab. He vented it on the messenger: "Why did you get so close to the city? Didn't you know you'd be attacked from the wall? Didn't you remember how Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth got killed? Wasn't it a woman who dropped a millstone on him from the wall and crushed him at Thebez? Why did you go close to the wall!" "By the way," said Joab's messenger, "your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead." Then David told the messenger, "Oh. I see. Tell Joab, ‘Don't trouble yourself over this. War kills—sometimes one, sometimes another—you never know who's next. Redouble your assault on the city and destroy it.' Encourage Joab." When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she grieved for her husband. When the time of mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. But God was not at all pleased with what David had done, ⁹David's Sin and Sorrow When that time of year came around again, the anniversary of the Ammonite aggression, David dispatched Joab and his fighting men of Israel in full force to destroy the Ammonites for good. They laid siege to Rabbah, but David stayed in Jerusalem. One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was strolling on the roof of the palace. From his vantage point on the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, and was told, "Isn't this Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?" David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to bed with her. (This occurred during the time of "purification" following her period.) Then she returned home. Before long she realized she was pregnant. Later she sent word to David: "I'm pregnant." David then got in touch with Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab sent him. When he arrived, David asked him for news from the front—how things were going with Joab and the troops and with the fighting. Then he said to Uriah, "Go home. Have a refreshing bath and a good night's rest." After Uriah left the palace, an informant of the king was sent after him. But Uriah didn't go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance, along with the king's servants. ¹⁰ David was told that Uriah had not gone home. He asked Uriah, "Didn't you just come off a hard trip? So why didn't you go home?" ¹¹ Uriah replied to David, "The Chest is out there with the fighting men of Israel and Judah—in tents. My master Joab and his servants are roughing it out in the fields. So, how can I go home and eat and drink and enjoy my wife? On your life, I'll not do it!" ¹²"All right," said David, "have it your way. Stay for the day and I'll send you back tomorrow." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem the rest of the day. The next day David invited him to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. But in the evening Uriah again went out and slept with his master's servants. He didn't go home.

Bible Verse Review
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Send me: Genesis 4:7, Genesis 38:18-23, 1 Samuel 15:30, Job 20:12-14, Proverbs 28:13, Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 26:70, Matthew 26:72, Matthew 26:74

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:21 - they are hid 1 Samuel 26:6 - Hittite 2 Samuel 20:22 - And Joab 2 Samuel 23:39 - Uriah 1 Chronicles 1:13 - Heth 1 Chronicles 11:41 - Uriah

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
God said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot happen!"

Genesis 6:5
God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil—evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. God said, "I'll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds—the works. I'm sorry I made them."

Genesis 11:1
At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so happened that as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there across the Earth."

1 Kings 18:27
By noon, Elijah had started making fun of them, taunting, "Call a little louder—he is a god, after all. Maybe he's off meditating somewhere or other, or maybe he's gotten involved in a project, or maybe he's on vacation. You don't suppose he's overslept, do you, and needs to be waked up?" They prayed louder and louder, cutting themselves with swords and knives—a ritual common to them—until they were covered with blood.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
You who are young, make the most of your youth. Relish your youthful vigor. Follow the impulses of your heart. If something looks good to you, pursue it. But know also that not just anything goes; You have to answer to God for every last bit of it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David sent to Joab,.... Who was with the army besieging Rabbah, which, according to Bunting k, was sixty four miles from Jerusalem:

[saying], send me Uriah the Hittite; the scheme David had contrived in his mind was to get Uriah home to his wife for a few days, that it might be thought the child she had conceived was his, whereby the sin of David, and her own, might be concealed:

and Joab sent Uriah to David; not knowing his business, and besides it was his duty to obey his command.

k Travels, &c. p. 146.