2 Samuel 11

1 At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. 2 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at. 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?"

4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. 5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."

6 David sent to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. 8 David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house. 10 When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn’t go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?"

11 Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!"

12 David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day. 13 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house. 14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die."

16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king, 20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’"

22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23 The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate. 24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead."

25 Then David said to the messenger, "Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him."

26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

Ka Pūremutia a Patehēpa e Rāwiri

1 Ā, i te takanga o te tau, i te wā anō e haere ai ngā kīngi ki te whawhai, nā, ka ungā e Rāwiri a Ioapa rātou ko āna tāngata, ko Īharaira katoa; ā, hunā iho e rātou ngā tama a Āmona, whakapaea ana a Rapa. Ko Rāwiri ia i noho ki Hiruhārama.

2 Ā, i te mea ka ahiahi, nā, ka maranga ake a Rāwiri i tōna moenga, ā, hāereere ana i runga i te tuanui o te whare o te kīngi. Nā, ka kitea iho e ia i te tuanui tētahi wahine e kaukau ana; he ātaahua rawa anō te wahine ki te titiro atu. 3 Nā, ka tono tāngata te kīngi, ā, ka i ui mō taua wahine. Nā, ko te meatanga, "Ehara ianei tēnei i a Patehēpa tamāhine a Eriama, ko te wahine ia a Uria Hiti." 4 Nā, ka ungā ētahi karere e Rāwiri ki te tiki i a ia; ā, ka haere mai ia ki a ia; ā, takoto tahi ana rāua. (Kua oti hoki tōna poke te pure.) Ā, hoki ana ki tōna whare. 5 Nā, ka hapū te wahine, ā, ka tono tangata ki a Rāwiri, ka mea, "Kua hapū ahau."

6 Nā, ka tono tangata a Rāwiri ki a Ioapa, ka mea, "Tēnā a Uria Hiti tonoa mai ki ahau." Nā, tonoa ana e Ioapa a Uria ki a Rāwiri. 7 Ā, i te taenga mai o Uria ki a ia, ka ui a Rāwiri i pēhea a Ioapa, i pēhea, hoki te iwi, ā, i pēhea te whawhai. 8 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Uria, "Haere ki raro, ki tōu whare ki te horoi i ōu waewae." Nā, ka puta a Uria i te whare o te kīngi; ā, i maua i muri i a ia tētahi kai a te kīngi. 9 Otiia moe ana a Uria ki te tatau o te whare o te kīngi i roto i ngā tāngata katoa a tōna ariki, kīhai hoki i haere ki raro, ki tōna whare.

10 Ā, ka kōrerotia te kōrero ki a Rāwiri, "Kīhai a Uria i haere ki raro, ki tōna whare." Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Uria, "He teka ianei kātahi anō koe ka tae mai i te haere? He aha koe tē haere ai ki raro, ki tōu whare?"

11 Nā, ka mea a Uria ki a Rāwiri, "Kei roto te āka i te tīhokahoka, me Īharaira, me Hūrā; kei te mata anō o te pārae tōku ariki, a Ioapa rātou ko ngā tāngata a tōku ariki e noho ana. Kia haere koia ahau ki tōku whare ki te kai, ki te inu, ki te takoto ki tāku wahine? E ora ana koe, e ora ana hoki tōu wairua, e kore tēnei mea e meatia e ahau."

12 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Uria, "E noho ki konei i tēnei rā anō, ā, āpōpō ahau unga ai i a koe." Heoi, noho ana a Uria i taua rā, i te aonga ake anō, ki Hiruhārama. 13 Nā, ka karangatia ia e Rāwiri, ā, kai ana; ā, meinga ana e ia kia haurangi. Ā, i te ahiahi ka puta ki waho ki te takoto ki tōna takotoranga i roto i ngā tāngata a tōna ariki, kīhai hoki i haere ki raro, ki tōna whare.

Ka Whakarite a Rāwiri kia Whakamate a Uria

14 Nā, i te ata ka tuhituhia he pukapuka e Rāwiri ki a Ioapa, ā, tonoa ana kia kawea e Uria. 15 I tuhituhi hoki ia ki te pukapuka, i mea "Me hoatu e koutou a Uria ki mua rawa, ki te wāhi e nui rawa ana te whawhai, ka hoki ai i muri i a ia, kia patua ai ia, kia mate ai."

16 Nā, i a Ioapa e whakapae ana i te pā, ka hoatu e ia a Uria ki te wāhi i mōhio ai ia kei reira ngā toa. 17 Nā, ko te putanga atu o ngā tāngata o te pā ki te whawhai ki a Ioapa, ka hinga ētahi o te iwi, ētahi o ngā tāngata ake a Rāwiri; i mate anō a Uria Hiti.

18 Kātahi a Ioapa ka tono tāngata hei kōrero ki a Rāwiri i ngā mea katoa o te whawhai. 19 I ako anō ia i te karere, i mea, "E poto i a koe ngā mea katoa o te whawhai te kōrero ki te kīngi; 20 nā, ki te ara te riri o te kīngi, ā, ka mea ia ki a koe, ‘He aha koutou i whakatata rawa ai ki te pā tatau ai? Kāhore ianei koutou i mōhio ka kōpere mai rātou i te taiepa? 21 Nā wai a Apīmereke tama a Ierupehete i patu? He teka ianei nā te wahine i makā te wāhi o runga o te kōhatu huri ki runga ki a ia i te taiepa, ā, mate iho ia ki Tepehe? He aha koutou i whakatata atu ai ki te taiepa?’ Nā, mea atu, ‘Kua mate anō tāu pononga, a Uria Hiti.’ "

22 Heoi, haere ana te karere, ā, ka tae, kōrerotia ana e ia ki a Rāwiri ngā mea katoa i ungā ai ia e Ioapa. 23 I mea hoki te karere ki a Rāwiri, "I kaha rawa mai aua tāngata ki a mātou, ā, puta mai ana ki a mātou ki te pārae. Nā, whakaekea atu ana e mātou, ā tae noa ki te kūwaha o te kēti. 24 Nā, ko te kōperenga mai a ngā kaikōpere i te taiepa ki āu tāngata, mate iho ētahi o ngā tāngata a te kīngi; ko tāu pononga hoki, ko Uria Hiti kua mate."

25 Kātahi ka mea a Rāwiri ki te karere, "Kia pēnei tāu kī atu ki a Ioapa, ‘Kei hē tēnei mea ki tōu whakaaro, he kai noa iho hoki tā te hoari i tētahi, i tētahi; kia kaha tāu whawhai ki te pā, whakangaromia.’ Māu anō ia e whakatenatena."

26 Ā, i te rongonga o te wahine a Uria kua mate tāna tahu a Uria, ka tangihia e ia tāna tahu. 27 Ā, ka pahemo te tangihanga, ka tono tāngata a Rāwiri ki te tiki i a ia ki tōna whare, ā, ka waiho hei wahine māna, ā, ka whānau tā rāua tama. Otiia i kino ki tā Ihowā titiro taua mea i mea ai a Rāwiri.