2 Samuel 11:9

Schlachter Bibel

Aber Urija legte sich vor der Tür des königlichen Hauses bei allen Knechten seines H errn schlafen und ging nicht in sein Haus hinab.

Parallel Translations

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und Urija legte sich am Eingang des Hauses des Königs nieder bei allen Knechten seines Herrn, und ging nicht in sein Haus hinab.

Lutherbible (1912)
Aber Uria legte sich schlafen vor der Tür des Königshauses, da alle Knechte seines Herrn lagen, und ging nicht hinab in sein Haus.

Bible Verse Review
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Job 5:12-14, Proverbs 21:30

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:13 - with the servants

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord,.... The bodyguards, which were placed there to watch the palace in the night season; Uriah first fell into a conversation with these as is highly probable, to whom he was well known, and who might inquire of one and another of their friends in the army; and he being weary, laid himself down among there, and slept:

and went not down to his house; whether the trifling questions David asked him, or the information the guards might give him of his wife being sent for to court; made him suspect something, and so had no inclination to go to this own house; or however so it was ordered by the providence of God, which directed him to act in this manner, that the sin of David and Bathsheba they studied to hide might be discovered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 11:9. Slept at the door — That is, in one of the apartments or niches in the court of the king's house. But in Bengal servants and others generally sleep on the verandahs or porches in face of their master's house.