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.
E aconteceu à volta de um ano, no tempo que saem os reis à guerra, que Davi enviou a Joabe, e a seus servos com ele, e a todo Israel; e destruíram aos amonitas, e puseram cerco a Rabá: mas Davi se ficou em Jerusalém.
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.
E aconteceu que levantando-se Davi de sua cama à hora da tarde, passeava-se pelo terraço da casa real, quando viu desde o terraço uma mulher que se estava lavando, a qual era muito bela.
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.”
E enviou Davi a preguntar por aquela mulher, e disseram-lhe: Aquela é Bate-Seba filha de Eliã, mulher de Urias Heteu.
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.
E Davi enviou mensageiros, e tomou-a: e assim que entrou a ele, ele dormiu com ela. Purificou-se logo ela de sua imundícia, e se voltou à sua casa.
5 [After some time], she realized that she was pregnant. So she sent a messenger to tell David [that she was pregnant].
E concebeu a mulher, e enviou-o a fazer saber a Davi, dizendo: Eu estou grávida.
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.
Então Davi enviou a dizer a Joabe: Envia-me a Urias Heteu. E enviou-o Joabe a Davi.
7 When he arrived, David asked if Joab was well, and if other soldiers were well, and how the war was progressing.
E quando Urias veio a ele, perguntou-lhe Davi pela saúde de Joabe, e pela saúde do povo, e também da guerra.
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.
Depois disse Davi a Urias: Desce à tua casa, e lava teus pés. E saindo Urias de casa do rei, veio atrás dele um presente real.
9 But Uriah did not go home. Instead, he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guards.
Mas Urias dormiu à porta da casa do rei com todos os servos de seu senhor, e não desceu à sua casa.
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]
E fizeram saber isto a Davi, dizendo: Urias não desceu à sua casa. E disse Davi a Urias: Não vieste de caminho? Por que, pois, não desceste à tua casa?
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!”
E Urias respondeu a Davi: A arca, e Israel e Judá, estão debaixo de tendas; e meu senhor Joabe, e os servos de meu senhor sobre a face do campo: e havia eu de entrar em minha casa para comer e beber, e a dormir com minha mulher? Por vida tua, e pela vida de tua alma, que eu não farei tal coisa.
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.
E Davi disse a Urias: Fica-te aqui ainda hoje, e amanhã te despedirei. E ficou Urias em Jerusalém aquele dia e o seguinte.
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.
E Davi o convidou, e fez-lhe comer e beber diante de si, até embriagá-lo. E ele saiu à tarde para dormir em sua cama com os servos de seu senhor; mas não desceu à sua casa.
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.
Vinda a manhã, escreveu Davi a Joabe uma carta, a qual enviou por mão de Urias.
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].”
E escreveu na carta, dizendo: Ponde a Urias diante da força da batalha, e desamparai-o, para que seja ferido e morra.
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.
Assim foi que quando Joabe cercou a cidade, pôs a Urias no lugar de onde sabia que estavam os homens mais valentes.
17 The men from the city came out and fought with Joab’s soldiers. They killed some of David’s officers, including Uriah.
E saindo logo os da cidade, lutaram com Joabe, e caíram alguns do povo dos servos de Davi; e morreu também Urias Heteu.
18 Then Joab sent a messenger to David to tell him about the fighting.
Então enviou Joabe, e fez saber a Davi todos os negócios da guerra.
19 He said to the messenger, “Tell David the news about the battle. After you finish telling that to him,
E mandou ao mensageiro, dizendo: Quando acabares de contar ao rei todos os negócios da guerra,
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]?
Se o rei começar a irar-se, e te disser: Por que vos aproximastes à cidade lutando? Não sabíeis que eles costumam atirar do muro?
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.’”
Quem feriu a Abimeleque filho de Jerubusete? Não lançou uma mulher do muro um pedaço de uma roda de moinho, e morreu em Tebes? Por que vos aproximastes ao muro? Então tu lhe dirás: Também teu servo Urias Heteu é morto.
22 So the messenger went and told David everything that Joab told him to say.
E foi o mensageiro, e chegando, contou a Davi todas as coisas a que Joabe lhe havia enviado.
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.
E disse o mensageiro a Davi: Prevaleceram contra nós os homens, que saíram a nós ao campo, bem que nós lhes fizemos retroceder até a entrada da porta;
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.”
Porém os flecheiros atiraram contra teus servos desde o muro, e morreram alguns dos servos do rei; e morreu também teu servo Urias Heteu.
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.”
E Davi disse ao mensageiro: Dirás assim a Joabe: Não tenhas pesar disto, que de igual e semelhante maneira costuma consumir a espada: esforça a batalha contra a cidade, até que a rendas. E tu conforta-o.
26 When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband had died, she mourned for him.
E ouvindo a mulher de Urias que seu marido Urias era morto, fez luto por seu marido.
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.
E passado o luto, enviou Davi e recolheu-a à sua casa: e foi ela sua mulher, e deu-lhe à luz um filho. Mas isto que Davi havia feito, foi desagradável aos olhos do SENHOR.
