2 Samuel 11
1 In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
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。
2 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
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，
3 So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
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。”
4 Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
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。
5 And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
于是她怀了孕，打发人去告诉大卫说：“我怀了孕。”
6 At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
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。
7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.
乌利亚来了，大卫问约押好，也问兵好，又问争战的事怎样。
8 Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
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。
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
乌利亚却和他主人的仆人一同睡在宫门外，没有回家去。
10 And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
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？”
11 Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
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！”
12 “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
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。
13 Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
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。
14 The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
次日早晨，大卫写信与约押，交乌利亚随手带去。
15 In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
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。”
16 So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.
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。
17 And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.
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。
18 Joab sent to David a full account of the battle
于是，约押差人去将争战的一切事告诉大卫，
19 and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,
又嘱咐使者说：“你把争战的一切事对王说完了，
20 if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
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？
21 Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
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。’”
22 So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
使者起身，来见大卫，照着约押所吩咐他的话奏告大卫。
23 The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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。
24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
射箭的从城上射王的仆人，射死几个，赫人乌利亚也死了。”
25 Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
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。”
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
乌利亚的妻听见丈夫乌利亚死了，就为他哀哭。
27 And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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。
