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.
No retorno do ano, no momento em que os reis saem, David enviou Joab e seus servos com ele, e todo Israel; e eles destruíram as crianças de Amon e sitiaram Rabbah. Mas Davi 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.
À noite, Davi levantou-se de sua cama e caminhou sobre o teto da casa do rei. Do telhado, ele viu uma mulher tomando banho, e a mulher era muito bonita para se olhar.
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.”
David enviou e indagou sobre a mulher. Um disse: “Esta não é Betsabá, a filha de William, Uriah, a esposa do hitita?”
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.
David enviou mensageiros e a levou; ela veio até ele, e ele deitou-se com ela (pois ela foi purificada de sua impureza); e ela voltou para sua casa.
5 [After some time], she realized that she was pregnant. So she sent a messenger to tell David [that she was pregnant].
A mulher concebeu; e ela mandou e disse a David, e disse: “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.
David enviou a Joab: “Envie-me Uriah, o hitita”. Joab mandou Uriah para David.
7 When he arrived, David asked if Joab was well, and if other soldiers were well, and how the war was progressing.
Quando Uriah chegou até ele, David perguntou-lhe como Joab se saiu, e como o povo se saiu, e como a guerra prosperou.
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.
David disse a Uriah: “Vá até sua casa e lave seus pés”. Uriah partiu da casa do rei, e um presente do rei foi enviado atrás dele.
9 But Uriah did not go home. Instead, he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guards.
Mas Uriah 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]
Quando disseram a David, dizendo: “Uriah não desceu à sua casa”, David disse a Uriah: “Você não veio de viagem? Por que você não foi até sua 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!”
Uriah disse a David: “A arca, Israel e Judá, estão hospedados em tendas; e meu senhor Joab e os servos de meu senhor estão acampados em campo aberto. Devo então entrar em minha casa para comer e beber, e deitar-me com minha esposa? Como você vive, e como sua alma vive, eu não farei isto”!
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.
David disse a Uriah: “Fique aqui também hoje, e amanhã eu o deixarei partir”. Então Uriah permaneceu em Jerusalém naquele dia e no dia 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.
Quando Davi o chamou, comeu e bebeu antes dele; e o deixou bêbado. À noite, ele saiu para deitar-se na cama com os criados 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.
Pela manhã, David escreveu uma carta para Joab e a enviou pela mão de Uriah.
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].”
Ele escreveu na carta, dizendo: “Mande Uriah para a frente da batalha mais quente, e afaste-se dele, para que ele possa ser atingido e morrer”.
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.
Quando Joab vigiava a cidade, ele designou Uriah para o lugar onde sabia que os homens valentes estavam.
17 The men from the city came out and fought with Joab’s soldiers. They killed some of David’s officers, including Uriah.
Os homens da cidade saíram e lutaram com Joab. Algumas pessoas caíram, até mesmo dos servos de David; e Uriah, o hitita, também morreu.
18 Then Joab sent a messenger to David to tell him about the fighting.
Então Joab enviou e contou a David todas as coisas relativas à guerra;
19 He said to the messenger, “Tell David the news about the battle. After you finish telling that to him,
e ordenou ao mensageiro, dizendo: “Quando tiverdes terminado de contar ao rei todas as coisas relativas à 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]?
será que, se a ira do rei se levantar, e ele vos perguntar: 'Por que vos aproximastes tanto da cidade para lutar? Você não sabia que eles iriam 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 atingiu Abimelech, o filho de Jerubbesheth? Não foi uma mulher que atirou uma pedra de moinho superior sobre ele do muro, de modo que ele morreu em Thebez? Por que se aproximou tanto do muro'', então você dirá: 'Seu servo Uriah, o hitita, também está morto'”.
22 So the messenger went and told David everything that Joab told him to say.
Então o mensageiro foi, e veio e mostrou a David tudo o que Joab o havia mandado buscar.
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.
O mensageiro disse a David: “Os homens prevaleceram contra nós, e vieram até nós no campo; e nós estávamos neles até a entrada do portão”.
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.”
Os atiradores atiraram em seus servos de fora do muro; e alguns dos servos do rei estão mortos, e seu servo Uriah, o hitita, também está morto”.
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.”
Então David disse ao mensageiro: “Diga a Joab: 'Não deixe isto desagradar-lhe, pois a espada devora tanto uma como a outra'. Faça sua batalha mais forte contra a cidade, e derrube-a”. Encoraje-o”.
26 When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband had died, she mourned for him.
Quando a esposa de Uriah soube que Uriah seu marido estava morto, ela chorou pelo 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.
Quando o luto passou, David a enviou e a levou para sua casa, e ela se tornou sua esposa e lhe deu à luz um filho. Mas o que David havia feito desagradou a Yahweh.
