2 Samuel 11

1 [In that region], kings usually went [with their armies] to fight [their enemies] in the springtime. But the following year, in the springtime, David [did not do that. Instead, he] stayed in Jerusalem, and he sent [his commander] Joab [to lead the army]. So Joab went with the other officers and the rest of the Israeli army. They [crossed the Jordan River and] defeated the army of the Ammon people-group. Then they surrounded [their capital city, ] Rabbah.

بهار سال بعد، داوود لشکر اسرائیل را به فرماندهی یوآب به جنگ عمونی‌ها فرستاد. (پادشاهان، طبق معمول در فصل بهار به دشمنان حمله‌ور می‌شدند.) آنها عمونی‌ها را شکست داده، شهر ربه را محاصره کردند. اما داوود در اورشلیم ماند.

2 Late one afternoon, after David got up from taking a nap, he walked around on the [flat] roof of his palace. He saw a woman who was bathing [in the courtyard of her house]. The woman was very beautiful.

یک روز هنگام عصر داوود از خواب برخاست و برای هواخوری به پشت بام کاخ سلطنتی رفت. وقتی در آنجا قدم می‌زد چشمش به زنی زیبا افتاد که مشغول حمام کردن بود.

3 David sent a messenger to find out who she was. [The messenger returned] and said, “She is [RHQ] Bathsheba. She is the daughter of Eliam, and her husband is Uriah, from the Heth people-group.”

داوود یک نفر را فرستاد تا بپرسد آن زن کیست. معلوم شد اسمش بَتشِبَع، دختر الیعام و زن اوریای حیتی است.

4 Then David sent more messengers to get her. They brought her to David, and he (slept/had sex) [EUP] with her. (She had just finished performing the rituals to make herself pure [after her monthly menstrual period].) Then Bathsheba went back home.

پس داوود چند نفر را فرستاد تا او را بیاورند. وقتی بَتشِبَع نزد او آمد، داوود با او همبستر شد. سپس بَتشِبَع خود را با آب طاهر ساخته، به خانه برگشت.

5 [After some time], she realized that she was pregnant. So she sent a messenger to tell David [that she was pregnant].

وقتی بَتشِبَع فهمید که حامله است، پیغام فرستاد و این موضوع را به داوود خبر داد.

6 Then David sent a message to Joab. He said, “Send Uriah, from the Heth people-group, to me.” So Joab did that. He sent Uriah to David.

پس داوود برای یوآب این پیغام را فرستاد: «اوریای حیتی را نزد من بفرست.»

7 When he arrived, David asked if Joab was well, and if other soldiers were well, and how the war was progressing.

وقتی اوریا آمد، داوود از او سلامتی یوآب و سربازان و اوضاع جنگ را پرسید.

8 Then David, [hoping that Uriah would go home and sleep with his wife, ] said to Uriah, “Okay, go home and relax for a while. [IDM]” So Uriah left, and David gave someone a gift [of some food] to take to Uriah’s house.

سپس به او گفت: «حال به خانه برو و استراحت کن.» بعد از رفتن اوریا، داوود هدایایی نیز به خانهٔ او فرستاد.

9 But Uriah did not go home. Instead, he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guards.

اما اوریا به خانهٔ خود نرفت و شب را کنار دروازهٔ کاخ، پیش محافظین پادشاه به سر برد.

10 When someone told David that Uriah did not go to his house [that night], David [summoned him again and] said to him, “Why didn’t you go home [to be with your wife last night], after having been away for a long time?” [RHQ]

وقتی داوود این را شنید، اوریا را احضار کرد و پرسید: «چه شده است؟ چرا پس از این همه دوری از خانه، دیشب به خانه نرفتی؟»

11 Uriah replied, “The soldiers of Judah and Israel are camping in the open fields, and even our commander Joab is sleeping in a tent, and the sacred chest is with them. (How could I/It would not be right for me to) go home, eat and drink, and sleep with my wife [RHQ]. I solemnly declare [IDM] that I will never do such a thing!”

اوریا گفت: «صندوق عهد خداوند و سپاه اسرائیل و یهودا و فرماندهٔ من یوآب و افسرانش در صحرا اردو زده‌اند، آیا رواست که من به خانه بروم و با زنم به عیش و نوش بپردازم و با او بخوابم؟ به جان شما قسم که این کار را نخواهم کرد.»

12 Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today. I will let you return [to the battle] tomorrow.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and that night.

داوود گفت: «بسیار خوب، پس امشب هم اینجا بمان و فردا به میدان جنگ برگرد.» پس اوریا آن روز و روز بعد هم در اورشلیم ماند.

13 The next day, David invited him [to a meal]. So Uriah had a meal with David, and David made him drink a lot of wine so that he would get drunk, [hoping that if he was drunk, he would sleep with his wife]. But that night, Uriah again did not go home. Instead, he slept on his cot with the king’s servants.

داوود او را برای صرف شام نگه داشت و او را مست کرد. با این حال، اوریا آن شب نیز به خانه‌اش نرفت بلکه دوباره کنار دروازهٔ کاخ خوابید.

14 [Someone reported that to] David, [so] the next morning he wrote a letter to Joab, and gave it to Uriah to take to Joab.

بالاخره، صبح روز بعد، داوود نامه‌ای برای یوآب نوشت و آن را به‌وسیلۀ اوریا برایش فرستاد.

15 In the letter, he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is the (worst/most severe). Then command the soldiers to pull back from him, in order that he will be killed [by our enemies].”

در نامه به یوآب دستور داده بود که وقتی جنگ شدت می‌گیرد، اوریا را در خط مقدم جبهه قرار بدهد و او را تنها بگذارد تا کشته شود.

16 [So after] Joab [got the letter], as his army was surrounding the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew that their enemies’ strongest and best soldiers would be fighting.

پس وقتی یوآب در حال محاصرهٔ شهر دشمن بود، اوریا را به جایی فرستاد که می‌دانست سربازان قوی دشمن در آنجا می‌جنگند.

17 The men from the city came out and fought with Joab’s soldiers. They killed some of David’s officers, including Uriah.

مردان شهر با یوآب جنگیدند و در نتیجه اوریا و چند سرباز دیگر اسرائیلی کشته شدند.

18 Then Joab sent a messenger to David to tell him about the fighting.

وقتی یوآب گزارش جنگ را برای داوود می‌فرستاد،

19 He said to the messenger, “Tell David the news about the battle. After you finish telling that to him,

به قاصد گفت: «وقتی این گزارش را به عرض پادشاه برسانی ممکن است او خشمگین شود و بپرسد: چرا سربازان تا این اندازه به شهر محاصره شده نزدیک شدند؟ مگر نمی‌دانستند از بالای دیوار به طرفشان تیراندازی خواهد شد؟ مگر فراموش کرده‌اند که ابیملک پسر جدعون در تاباص به دست زنی کشته شد که از بالای دیوار، یک سنگ آسیاب دستی روی سرش انداخت؟ آنگاه بگو: اوریا هم کشته شد.»

20 if David is angry [because so many officers were killed], he may ask you, ‘Why did your soldiers go so close to the city to fight [RHQ]? Did you not know that they would shoot [arrows at you while they were standing on top] of the city wall [RHQ]?

21 Do you not remember how Abimelech, the son of Gideon, was killed? A woman [who lived] in Thebez threw a huge (millstone/stone for grinding grain) on him from [the top of] tower, and he died. So why did your troops go near to the city wall?’ If the king asks this, then tell him, ‘Your officer Uriah also was killed.’”

22 So the messenger went and told David everything that Joab told him to say.

پس، آن قاصد به اورشلیم رفت و به داوود گزارش داده، گفت: «افراد دشمن از ما قویتر بودند و از شهر خارج شده، به ما حمله کردند ولی ما آنها را تا دروازهٔ شهر عقب راندیم.

23 The messenger said to David, “Our enemies were very brave, and came out of the city to fight us in the fields. [They were defeating us] but we forced them back to the city gate.

24 Then their archers shot arrows at us from [the top of] the city wall. They killed some of your officers. They killed your officer Uriah, too.”

تیراندازان از روی دیوار ما را هدف قرار دادند. چند نفر از سربازان ما کشته شدند که اوریای حیتی هم در بین ایشان بود.»

25 David said to the messenger, “Go back to Joab and say to him, ‘Do not be distressed [about what happened], because no one ever knows who will be killed in a battle.’ Tell him that the next time his troops should attack the city more strongly, and capture it.”

داوود گفت: «بسیار خوب، به یوآب بگو که ناراحت نباشد، چون شمشیر فرقی بین این و آن قائل نمی‌شود. این دفعه سختتر بجنگید و شهر را تسخیر کنید. در ضمن به او بگو از کارش راضی‌ام.»

26 When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband had died, she mourned for him.

وقتی بَتشِبَع شنید شوهرش مرده است، عزادار شد.

27 When her time of mourning was ended, David sent messengers to bring her to the palace. Thus, she became David’s wife. She later gave birth to a son. But Yahweh was very displeased with what David had done.

بعد از تمام شدن ایام سوگواری، داوود بَتشِبَع را به کاخ سلطنتی آورد و او نیز یکی از زنان داوود شده، از او پسری به دنیا آورد. اما کاری که داوود کرده بود در نظر خداوند ناپسند آمد.