2 Samuel 11
1 At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at 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 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
Dum hæc agerentur, accidit ut surgeret David de strato suo post meridiem, et deambularet in solario domus regiæ: viditque mulierem se lavantem, ex adverso super solarium suum: erat autem mulier pulchra valde.
3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
Misit ergo rex, et requisivit quæ esset mulier. Nunciatumque est ei quod ipsa esset Bethsabee filia Eliam, uxor Uriæ Hethæi.
4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
Missis itaque David nunciis, tulit eam. quæ cum ingressa esset ad illum, dormivit cum ea: statimque sanctificata est ab immunditia sua:
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
et reversa est domum suam concepto fœtu. Mittensque nunciavit David, et ait: Concepi.
6 David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
Misit autem David ad Ioab, dicens: Mitte ad me Uriam Hethæum. Misitque Ioab Uriam ad David.
7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
Et venit Urias ad David. Quæsivitque David quam recte ageret Ioab, et populus, et quomodo administraretur bellum.
8 David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent 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 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.
Dormivit autem Urias ante portam domus regiæ cum aliis servis domini sui, et non descendit ad domum suam.
10 When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go 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 Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not 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 terræ manent: et ego ingrediar domum meam, ut comedam et bibam, et dormiam cum uxore mea? per salutem tuam, et per salutem animæ tuæ non faciam rem hanc.
12 David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and 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 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
et vocavit eum David ut comederet coram se et biberet, et inebriavit eum: qui egressus vespere, dormivit in strato suo cum servis domini sui, et in domum suam non descendit.
14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
Factum est ergo mane, et scripsit David epistolam ad Ioab: misitque per manum Uriæ,
15 He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.”
scribens in epistola: Ponite Uriam ex adverso belli, ubi fortissimum est prælium: et derelinquite eum, ut percussus intereat.
16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned 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 The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Egressique viri de civitate, bellabant adversum Ioab, et ceciderunt de populo servorum David, et mortuus est etiam Urias Hethæus.
18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
Misit itaque Ioab, et nunciavit David omnia verba prælii:
19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
præcepitque nuncio, dicens: Cum compleveris universos sermones belli ad regem,
20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
si eum videris indignari, et dixerit: Quare accessistis ad murum, ut præliaremini? an ignorabatis quod multa desuper ex muro tela mittantur?
21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
Quis percussit Abimelech filium Ierobaal? nonne mulier misit super eum fragmen molæ de muro, et interfecit eum in Thebes? quare iuxta murum accessistis? dices: Etiam servus tuus Urias Hethæus occubuit.
22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
Abiit ergo nuncius, et venit, et narravit David omnia quæ ei præceperat Ioab.
23 The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
Et dixit nuncius ad David: Prævaluerunt adversum nos viri, et egressi sunt ad nos in agrum: nos autem facto impetu persecuti eos sumus usque ad portam civitatis.
24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
Et direxerunt iacula sagittarii ad servos tuos ex muro desuper: mortuique sunt de servis regis, quinetiam servus tuus Urias Hethæus mortuus est.
25 Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
Et dixit David ad nuncium: Hæc dices Ioab: Non te frangat ista res: varius enim eventus est belli, nunc hunc, et nunc illum consumit gladius: conforta bellatores tuos adversus urbem, ut destruas eam, et exhortare eos.
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
Audivit autem uxor Uriæ, quod mortuus esset Urias vir suus, et planxit eum.
27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
Transacto autem 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.
