1 E aconteceu que, tendo decorrido um ano, no tempo em que os reis saem à guerra, enviou Davi a Joabe, e com ele os seus servos, e a todo o Israel; e eles destruíram os filhos de Amom, e cercaram a Rabá; porém Davi ficou em Jerusalém.
2 E aconteceu que numa tarde Davi se levantou do seu leito, e andava passeando no terraço da casa real, e viu do terraço a uma mulher que se estava lavando; e era esta mulher mui formosa à vista.
3 E mandou Davi indagar quem era aquela mulher; e disseram: Porventura não é esta Bate-Seba, filha de Eliã, mulher de Urias, o heteu?
4 Então enviou Davi mensageiros, e mandou trazê-la; e ela veio, e ele se deitou com ela (pois já estava purificada da sua imundícia); então voltou ela para sua casa.
5 E a mulher concebeu; e mandou dizer a Davi: Estou grávida.
6 Então Davi mandou dizer a Joabe: Envia-me Urias, o heteu. E Joabe enviou Urias a Davi.
7 Vindo, pois, Urias a ele, perguntou Davi como passava Joabe, e como estava o povo, e como ia a guerra.
8 Depois disse Davi a Urias: Desce à tua casa, e lava os teus pés. E, saindo Urias da casa real, logo lhe foi mandado um presente da mesa do rei.
9 Porém Urias se deitou à porta da casa real, com todos os servos do seu senhor; e não desceu à sua casa.
10 E fizeram saber isto a Davi, dizendo: Urias não desceu a sua casa. Então disse Davi à Urias: Não vens tu duma jornada? Por que não desceste à tua casa?
11 E disse Urias a Davi: A arca, e Israel, e Judá ficaram em tendas; e Joabe, meu senhor, e os servos de meu senhor estão acampados no campo; e hei de eu entrar na minha casa, para comer e beber, e para me deitar com minha mulher? Pela tua vida, e pela vida da tua alma, não farei tal coisa.
12 Então disse Davi a Urias: Demora-te aqui ainda hoje, e amanhã te despedirei. Urias, pois, ficou em Jerusalém aquele dia e o seguinte.
13 E Davi o convidou, e comeu e bebeu diante dele, e o embebedou; e à tarde saiu a deitar-se na sua cama com os servos de seu senhor; porém não desceu à sua casa.
14 E sucedeu que pela manhã Davi escreveu uma carta a Joabe; e mandou-lha por mão de Urias.
15 Escreveu na carta, dizendo: Ponde a Urias na frente da maior força da peleja; e retirai-vos de detrás dele, para que seja ferido e morra.
16 Aconteceu, pois, que, tendo Joabe observado bem a cidade, pôs a Urias no lugar onde sabia que havia homens valentes.
17 E, saindo os homens da cidade, e pelejando com Joabe, caíram alguns do povo, dos servos de Davi; e morreu também Urias, o heteu.
18 Então enviou Joabe, e fez saber a Davi todo o sucesso daquela peleja.
19 E deu ordem ao mensageiro, dizendo: Acabando tu de contar ao rei todo o sucesso desta peleja,
20 E sucedendo que o rei se encolerize, e te diga: Por que vos chegastes tão perto da cidade a pelejar? Não sabíeis vós que haviam de atirar do muro?
21 Quem feriu a Abimeleque, filho de Jerubesete? Não lançou uma mulher sobre ele do muro um pedaço de uma mó corredora, de que morreu em Tebes? Por que vos chegastes ao muro? Então dirás: Também morreu teu servo Urias, o heteu.
22 E foi o mensageiro, e entrou, e fez saber a Davi tudo o que Joabe o enviara a dizer.
23 E disse o mensageiro a Davi: Na verdade que mais poderosos foram aqueles homens do que nós, e saíram a nós ao campo; porém nós fomos contra eles, até à entrada da porta.
24 Então os flecheiros atiraram contra os teus servos desde o alto do muro, e morreram alguns dos servos do rei; e também morreu o teu servo Urias, o heteu.
25 E disse Davi ao mensageiro: Assim dirás a Joabe: Não te pareça isto mal aos teus olhos; pois a espada tanto consome este como aquele; esforça a tua peleja contra a cidade, e a derrota; esforça-o tu assim.
26 Ouvindo, pois, a mulher de Urias que seu marido era morto, lamentou a seu senhor.
27 E, passado o luto, enviou Davi, e a recolheu em sua casa, e lhe foi por mulher, e deu-lhe à luz um filho. Porém esta coisa que Davi fez pareceu mal aos olhos do Senhor.
1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.
2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.
5 And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.
6 And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going.
8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.
9 But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10 And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?
11 And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.
12 And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.
13 And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14 Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.
15 And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.
16 So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.
17 And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.
18 Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:
19 And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,
20 If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?
21 Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.
22 So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?
23 And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.
24 And the archers sent their arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and among them is your servant Uriah the Hittite.
25 Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.
26 And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.
27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.