2Samuel:10-12
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And it came to pass after this ,
that the king of the children of Ammon died ,
and Hanun his son reigned in his stead .
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Then said David ,
I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash ,
as his father shewed kindness unto me .
And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father .
And David '
s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon .
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And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord ,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father ,
that he hath sent comforters unto thee ?
hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee ,
to search the city ,
and to spy it out ,
and to overthrow it ?
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Wherefore Hanun took David '
s servants ,
and shaved off the one half of their beards ,
and cut off their garments in the middle ,
even to their buttocks ,
and sent them away .
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When they told it unto David ,
he sent to meet them ,
because the men were greatly ashamed :
and the king said ,
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown ,
and then return .
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And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David ,
the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob ,
and the Syrians of Zoba ,
twenty thousand footmen ,
and of king Maacah a thousand men ,
and of Ishtob twelve thousand men .
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And when David heard of it ,
he sent Joab ,
and all the host of the mighty men .
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And the children of Ammon came out ,
and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate :
and the Syrians of Zoba ,
and of Rehob ,
and Ishtob ,
and Maacah ,
were by themselves in the field .
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When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind ,
he chose of all the choice men of Israel ,
and put them in array against the Syrians :
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And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother ,
that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon .
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And he said ,
If the Syrians be too strong for me ,
then thou shalt help me :
but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee ,
then I will come and help thee .
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Be of good courage ,
and let us play the men for our people ,
and for the cities of our God :
and the LORD do that which seemeth him good .
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And Joab drew nigh ,
and the people that were with him ,
unto the battle against the Syrians :
and they fled before him .
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And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled ,
then fled they also before Abishai ,
and entered into the city .
So Joab returned from the children of Ammon ,
and came to Jerusalem .
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And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel ,
they gathered themselves together .
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And Hadarezer sent ,
and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river :
and they came to Helam ;
and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them .
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And when it was told David ,
he gathered all Israel together ,
and passed over Jordan ,
and came to Helam .
And the Syrians set themselves in array against David ,
and fought with him .
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And the Syrians fled before Israel ;
and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians ,
and forty thousand horsemen ,
and smote Shobach the captain of their host ,
who died there .
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And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel ,
they made peace with Israel ,
and served them .
So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more .
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And it came to pass ,
after the year was expired ,
at the time when kings go forth 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 tarried still at Jerusalem .
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And it came to pass in an eveningtide ,
that David arose from off his bed ,
and walked upon the roof of the king '
s house :
and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself ;
and the woman was very beautiful to look upon .
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And David sent and enquired after the woman .
And one said ,
Is not this Bathsheba ,
the daughter of Eliam ,
the wife of Uriah the Hittite ?
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And David sent messengers ,
and took her ;
and she came in unto him ,
and he lay with her ;
for she was purified from her uncleanness :
and she returned unto her house .
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And the woman conceived ,
and sent and told David ,
and said ,
I am with child .
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And David sent to Joab ,
saying ,
Send me Uriah the Hittite .
And Joab sent Uriah to David .
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And when Uriah was come unto him ,
David demanded of him how Joab did ,
and how the people did ,
and how the war prospered .
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And David said to Uriah ,
Go down to thy house ,
and wash thy feet .
And Uriah departed out of the king '
s house ,
and there followed him a mess of meat from the king .
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But Uriah slept at the door of the king '
s house with all the servants of his lord ,
and went not down to his house .
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And when they had told David ,
saying ,
Uriah went not down unto his house ,
David said unto Uriah ,
Camest thou not from thy journey ?
why then didst thou not go down unto thine house ?
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And Uriah said unto David ,
The ark ,
and Israel ,
and Judah ,
abide in tents ;
and my lord Joab ,
and the servants of my lord ,
are encamped in the open fields ;
shall I then go into mine house ,
to eat and to drink ,
and to lie with my wife ?
as thou livest ,
and as thy soul liveth ,
I will not do this thing .
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And David said to Uriah ,
Tarry here to day also ,
and to morrow I will let thee depart .
So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day ,
and the morrow .
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And when David had called him ,
he did eat and drink before him ;
and he made him drunk :
and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord ,
but went not down to his house .
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And it came to pass in the morning ,
that David wrote a letter to Joab ,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah .
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And he wrote in the letter ,
saying ,
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle ,
and retire ye from him ,
that he may be smitten ,
and die .
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And it came to pass ,
when Joab observed the city ,
that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were .
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And the men of the city went out ,
and fought with Joab :
and there fell some of the people of the servants of David ;
and Uriah the Hittite died also .
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Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war ;
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And charged the messenger ,
saying ,
When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king ,
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And if so be that the king '
s wrath arise ,
and he say unto thee ,
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight ?
knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall ?
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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth ?
did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall ,
that he died in Thebez ?
why went ye nigh the wall ?
then say thou ,
Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also .
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So the messenger went ,
and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for .
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And the messenger said unto David ,
Surely the men prevailed against us ,
and came out unto us into the field ,
and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate .
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And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants ;
and some of the king '
s servants be dead ,
and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also .
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Then David said unto the messenger ,
Thus shalt thou say unto Joab ,
Let not this thing displease thee ,
for the sword devoureth one as well as another :
make thy battle more strong against the city ,
and overthrow it :
and encourage thou him .
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead ,
she mourned for her husband .
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And when the mourning was past ,
David sent and fetched her to his house ,
and she became his wife ,
and bare him a son .
But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD .
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And the LORD sent Nathan unto David .
And he came unto him ,
and said unto him ,
There were two men in one city ;
the one rich ,
and the other poor .
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The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds :
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But the poor man had nothing ,
save one little ewe lamb ,
which he had bought and nourished up :
and it grew up together with him ,
and with his children ;
it did eat of his own meat ,
and drank of his own cup ,
and lay in his bosom ,
and was unto him as a daughter .
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And there came a traveller unto the rich man ,
and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd ,
to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ;
but took the poor man '
s lamb ,
and dressed it for the man that was come to him .
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And David '
s anger was greatly kindled against the man ;
and he said to Nathan ,
As the LORD liveth ,
the man that hath done this thing shall surely die :
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And he shall restore the lamb fourfold ,
because he did this thing ,
and because he had no pity .
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And Nathan said to David ,
Thou art the man .
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
I anointed thee king over Israel ,
and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul ;
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And I gave thee thy master '
s house ,
and thy master '
s wives into thy bosom ,
and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah ;
and if that had been too little ,
I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things .
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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD ,
to do evil in his sight ?
thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword ,
and hast taken his wife to be thy wife ,
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon .
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Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house ;
because thou hast despised me ,
and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house ,
and I will take thy wives before thine eyes ,
and give them unto thy neighbour ,
and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun .
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For thou didst it secretly :
but I will do this thing before all Israel ,
and before the sun .
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And David said unto Nathan ,
I have sinned against the LORD .
And Nathan said unto David ,
The LORD also hath put away thy sin ;
thou shalt not die .
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Howbeit ,
because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme ,
the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die .
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And Nathan departed unto his house .
And the LORD struck the child that Uriah '
s wife bare unto David ,
and it was very sick .
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David therefore besought God for the child ;
and David fasted ,
and went in ,
and lay all night upon the earth .
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And the elders of his house arose ,
and went to him ,
to raise him up from the earth :
but he would not ,
neither did he eat bread with them .
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And it came to pass on the seventh day ,
that the child died .
And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead :
for they said ,
Behold ,
while the child was yet alive ,
we spake unto him ,
and he would not hearken unto our voice :
how will he then vex himself ,
if we tell him that the child is dead ?
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But when David saw that his servants whispered ,
David perceived that the child was dead :
therefore David said unto his servants ,
Is the child dead ?
And they said ,
He is dead .
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Then David arose from the earth ,
and washed ,
and anointed himself ,
and changed his apparel ,
and came into the house of the LORD ,
and worshipped :
then he came to his own house ;
and when he required ,
they set bread before him ,
and he did eat .
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Then said his servants unto him ,
What thing is this that thou hast done ?
thou didst fast and weep for the child ,
while it was alive ;
but when the child was dead ,
thou didst rise and eat bread .
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And he said ,
While the child was yet alive ,
I fasted and wept :
for I said ,
Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me ,
that the child may live ?
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But now he is dead ,
wherefore should I fast ?
can I bring him back again ?
I shall go to him ,
but he shall not return to me .
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And David comforted Bathsheba his wife ,
and went in unto her ,
and lay with her :
and she bare a son ,
and he called his name Solomon :
and the LORD loved him .
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And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet ;
and he called his name Jedidiah ,
because of the LORD .
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And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon ,
and took the royal city .
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And Joab sent messengers to David ,
and said ,
I have fought against Rabbah ,
and have taken the city of waters .
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Now therefore gather the rest of the people together ,
and encamp against the city ,
and take it :
lest I take the city ,
and it be called after my name .
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And David gathered all the people together ,
and went to Rabbah ,
and fought against it ,
and took it .
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And he took their king '
s crown from off his head ,
the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones :
and it was set on David '
s head .
And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance .
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And he brought forth the people that were therein ,
and put them under saws ,
and under harrows of iron ,
and under axes of iron ,
and made them pass through the brickkiln :
and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon .
So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem .
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And it came to pass after this ,
that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister ,
whose name was Tamar ;
and Amnon the son of David loved her .
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