撒母耳记下 11
1 过了一年，到列王出战的时候，大卫又差派约押，率领臣仆和以色列众人出战。他们就打败亚扪人，围攻拉巴。大卫仍住在耶路撒冷。
And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.
2 一日，太阳平西，大卫从床上起来，在王宫的平顶上游行，看见一个妇人沐浴，容貌甚美，
In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.
3 大卫就差人打听那妇人是谁。有人说：“她是以连的女儿，赫人乌利亚的妻拔示巴。”
And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.
4 大卫差人去，将妇人接来；那时她的月经才得洁净。她来了，大卫与她同房，她就回家去了。
And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:
5 于是她怀了孕，打发人去告诉大卫说：“我怀了孕。”
And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.
6 大卫差人到约押那里，说：“你打发赫人乌利亚到我这里来。”约押就打发乌利亚去见大卫。
And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.
7 乌利亚来了，大卫问约押好，也问兵好，又问争战的事怎样。
And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the people, and how the war was carried on.
8 大卫对乌利亚说：“你回家去，洗洗脚吧！”乌利亚出了王宫，随后王送他一分食物。
And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And Urias went out from the king’s house, and there went out after him a mess of meat from the king.
9 乌利亚却和他主人的仆人一同睡在宫门外，没有回家去。
But Urias slept before the gate of the king’s house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.
10 有人告诉大卫说：“乌利亚没有回家去。”大卫就问乌利亚说：“你从远路上来，为什么不回家去呢？”
And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
11 乌利亚对大卫说：“约柜和以色列与犹大兵都住在棚里，我主约押和我主的仆人都在田野安营，我岂可回家吃喝、与妻子同寝呢？我敢在王面前起誓：我决不行这事！”
And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.
12 大卫吩咐乌利亚说：“你今日仍住在这里，明日我打发你去。”于是乌利亚那日和次日住在耶路撒冷。
Then David said to Urias: Tarry here today, and tomorrow I will send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13 大卫召了乌利亚来，叫他在自己面前吃喝，使他喝醉。到了晚上，乌利亚出去与他主的仆人一同住宿，还没有回到家里去。
And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.
14 次日早晨，大卫写信与约押，交乌利亚随手带去。
And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,
15 信内写着说：“要派乌利亚前进，到阵势极险之处，你们便退后，使他被杀。”
Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.
16 约押围城的时候，知道敌人那里有勇士，便将乌利亚派在那里。
Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.
17 城里的人出来和约押打仗；大卫的仆人中有几个被杀的，赫人乌利亚也死了。
And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the Hethite was killed also.
18 于是，约押差人去将争战的一切事告诉大卫，
Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.
19 又嘱咐使者说：“你把争战的一切事对王说完了，
And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the words of the battle to the king,
20 王若发怒，问你说：‘你们打仗为什么挨近城墙呢？岂不知敌人必从城上射箭吗？
If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are thrown from above off the wall?
21 从前打死耶路·比设儿子亚比米勒的是谁呢？岂不是一个妇人从城上抛下一块上磨石来，打在他身上，他就死在提备斯吗？你们为什么挨近城墙呢？’你就说：‘王的仆人—赫人乌利亚也死了。’”
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.
22 使者起身，来见大卫，照着约押所吩咐他的话奏告大卫。
So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab had commanded him.
23 使者对大卫说：“敌人强过我们，出到郊野与我们打仗，我们追杀他们，直到城门口。
And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us, and they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and pursued them even to the gate of the city.
24 射箭的从城上射王的仆人，射死几个，赫人乌利亚也死了。”
And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the wall above: and some of the king’s servants are slain, and thy servant Urias the Hethite is also dead.
25 王向使者说：“你告诉约押说：‘不要因这事愁闷，刀剑或吞灭这人或吞灭那人，没有一定的；你只管竭力攻城，将城倾覆。’可以用这话勉励约押。”
And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war: and sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword: encourage thy warriors against The city, and exhort them that thou mayest overthrow it.
26 乌利亚的妻听见丈夫乌利亚死了，就为他哀哭。
And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for him.
27 哀哭的日子过了，大卫差人将她接到宫里，她就作了大卫的妻，给大卫生了一个儿子。但大卫所行的这事，耶和华甚不喜悦。
And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.
