2 Samuel 11
1 And it comes to pass, at the revolution of the year—at the time of the going out of the messengers—that David sends Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the sons of Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah, but David is dwelling in Jerusalem.
Factum est autem, vertente anno, eo tempore quo solent reges ad bella procedere, misit David Ioab, et servos suos cum eo, et universum Israel, et vastaverunt filios Ammon, et obsederunt Rabba: David autem remansit in Ierusalem.
2 And it comes to pass, at evening-time, that David rises from off his bed, and walks up and down on the roof of the king’s house, and sees a woman bathing from the roof, and the woman [is] of very good appearance,
Dum haec agerentur, accidit ut surgeret David de strato suo post meridiem, et deambularet in solario domus regiae: viditque mulierem se lavantem, ex adverso super solarium suum: erat autem mulier pulchra valde.
3 and David sends and inquires about the woman, and [someone] says, “Is this not Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
Misit ergo rex, et requisivit quae esset mulier. Nunciatumque est ei quod ipsa esset Bethsabee filia Eliam, uxor Uriae Hethaei.
4 And David sends messengers, and takes her, and she comes to him, and he lies with her—and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness—and she turns back to her house;
Missis itaque David nunciis, tulit eam. quae cum ingressa esset ad illum, dormivit cum ea: statimque sanctificata est ab immunditia sua:
5 and the woman conceives, and sends, and declares [it] to David, and says, “I [am] conceiving.”
et reversa est domum suam concepto foetu. Mittensque nunciavit David, et ait: Concepi.
6 And David sends to Joab, [saying], “Send Uriah the Hittite to me,” and Joab sends Uriah to David;
Misit autem David ad Ioab, dicens: Mitte ad me Uriam Hethaeum. Misitque Ioab Uriam ad David.
7 and Uriah comes to him, and David asks of the prosperity of Joab, and of the prosperity of the people, and of the prosperity of the war.
Et venit Urias ad David. Quaesivitque David quam recte ageret Ioab, et populus, et quomodo administraretur bellum.
8 And David says to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet”; and Uriah goes out of the king’s house, and there goes out a gift from the king after him,
et dixit David ad Uriam: Vade in domum tuam, et lava pedes tuos. Et egressus est Urias de domo regis, secutusque est eum cibus regius.
9 and Uriah lies down at the opening of the king’s house, with all the servants of his lord, and has not gone down to his house.
Dormivit autem Urias ante portam domus regiae cum aliis servis domini sui, et non descendit ad domum suam.
10 And they declare [it] to David, saying, “Uriah has not gone down to his house”; and David says to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why have you not gone down to your house?”
Nunciatumque est David a dicentibus: Non ivit Urias in domum suam. Et ait David ad Uriam: Numquid non de via venisti? quare non descendisti in domum tuam?
11 And Uriah says to David, “The ark, and Israel, and Judah, are abiding in shelters, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamping on the face of the field; and should I go to my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [By] your life and the life of your soul—if I do this thing.”
Et ait Urias ad David: Arca Dei et Israel et Iuda habitant in papilionibus, et dominus meus Ioab, et servi domini mei super faciem terrae manent: et ego ingrediar domum meam, ut comedam et bibam, et dormiam cum uxore mea? per salutem tuam, et per salutem animae tuae non faciam rem hanc.
12 And David says to Uriah, “Also abide in this [place] today, and tomorrow I send you away”; and Uriah abides in Jerusalem on that day and on the next day,
Ait ergo David ad Uriam: Mane hic etiam hodie, et cras dimittam te. Mansit Urias in Ierusalem in die illa et altera:
13 and David calls for him, and he eats before him, and drinks, and he causes him to drink, and he goes out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, and he has not gone down to his house.
et vocavit eum David ut comederet coram se et biberet, et inebriavit eum: qui egressus vespere, dormivit in stratu suo cum servis domini sui, et in domum suam non descendit.
14 And it comes to pass in the morning that David writes a letter to Joab and sends [it] by the hand of Uriah;
Factum est ergo mane, et scripsit David epistolam ad Ioab: misitque per manum Uriae,
15 and he writes in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in front of the face of the most severe battle, and you have turned back from after him, and he has been struck, and has died.”
scribens in epistola: Ponite Uriam ex adverso belli, ubi fortissimum est praelium: et derelinquite eum, ut percussus intereat.
16 And it comes to pass in Joab’s watching of the city, that he appoints Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men [were];
Igitur cum Ioab obsideret urbem, posuit Uriam in loco ubi sciebat viros esse fortissimos.
17 and the men of the city go out and fight with Joab, and [some] of the people, from the servants of David, fall; and Uriah the Hittite also dies.
Egressique viri de civitate, bellabant adversum Ioab, et ceciderunt de populo servorum David, et mortuus est etiam Urias Hethaeus.
18 And Joab sends and declares to David all the matters of the war,
Misit itaque Ioab, et nunciavit David omnia verba praelii:
19 and commands the messenger, saying, “At your finishing all the matters of the war to speak to the king,
praecepitque nuncio, dicens: Cum compleveris universos sermones belli ad regem,
20 then, it has been, if the king’s fury ascends, and he has said to you, Why did you draw near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they shoot from off the wall?
si eum videris indignari, et dixerit: Quare accessistis ad murum, ut praeliaremini? an ignorabatis quod multa desuper ex muro tela mittantur?
21 Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did a woman not cast a piece of a rider from the wall on him, and he dies in Thebez? Why did you draw near to the wall? That you have said, Also—your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
Quis percussit Abimelech filium Ierobaal? nonne mulier misit super eum fragmen molae de muro, et interfecit eum in Thebes? quare iuxta murum accessistis? dices: Etiam servus tuus Urias Hethaeus occubuit.
22 And the messenger goes, and comes in, and declares to David all that with which Joab sent him,
Abiit ergo nuncius, et venit, et narravit David omnia quae ei praeceperat Ioab.
23 and the messenger says to David, “Surely the men have been mighty against us, and come out to us into the field, and we are on them to the opening of the gate,
Et dixit nuncius ad David: Praevaluerunt adversum nos viri, et egressi sunt ad nos in agrum: nos autem facto impetu persecuti eos sumus usque ad portam civitatis.
24 and those shooting shoot at your servants from off the wall, and [some] of the servants of the king are dead, and also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
Et direxerunt iacula sagittarii ad servos tuos ex muro desuper: mortuique sunt de servis regis, quinetiam servus tuus Urias Hethaeus mortuus est.
25 And David says to the messenger, “Thus you say to Joab, Do not let this thing be evil in your eyes; for thus and thus the sword devours; strengthen your warfare against the city, and throw it down; so you strengthen him.”
Et dixit David ad nuncium: Haec dices Ioab: Non te frangat ista res: varius enim eventus est belli, et nunc hunc, et nunc illum consumit gladius: conforta bellatores tuos adversus urbem, ut destruas eam, et exhortare eos.
26 And the wife of Uriah hears that her husband Uriah [is] dead, and laments for her lord;
Audivit autem uxor Uriae, quod mortuus esset Urias vir suus, et planxit eum.
27 and the mourning passes by, and David sends and gathers her to his house, and she is to him for a wife, and bears a son to him; and the thing which David has done is evil in the eyes of YHWH.
Transactoque luctu misit David, et introduxit eam in domum suam, et facta est ei uxor, peperitque ei filium: et displicuit verbum hoc, quod fecerat David, coram Domino.
