2 Samuel 11
1 E aconteceu que, tendo decorrido um ano, no tempo em que os reis saem, enviou David a Joab, e a seus servos com ele, e a todo o Israel, para que destruíssem os filhos de Ammon, e cercassem a Rabba; porém David ficou em Jerusalém.
[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.
2 E aconteceu à hora da tarde que David se levantou do seu leito, e andava passeando no terraço da casa real, e viu do terraço a uma mulher que se estava lavando: e era esta mulher mui formosa à vista.
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.
3 E enviou David, e perguntou por aquela mulher: e disseram: Porventura não é esta Bathseba, filha de Eliam, mulher de Urias, o hetheu?
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.”
4 Então enviou David mensageiros, e a mandou trazer; e, entrando ela a ele, se deitou com ela (e já ela se tinha purificado da sua imundícia): então voltou ela para sua casa.
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.
5 E a mulher concebeu; e enviou, e fê-lo saber a David, e disse: Prenhe estou.
[After some time], she realized that she was pregnant. So she sent a messenger to tell David [that she was pregnant].
6 Então enviou David a Joab, dizendo: Envia-me Urias o hetheu. E Joab enviou Urias a David.
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.
7 Vindo pois Urias a ele, perguntou David como ficava Joab, e como ficava o povo, e como ia a guerra.
When he arrived, David asked if Joab was well, and if other soldiers were well, and how the war was progressing.
8 Depois disse David a Urias: Desce a tua casa, e lava os teus pés. E, saindo Urias da casa real, logo saiu atráz dele iguaria do rei.
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.
9 Porém Urias se deitou à porta da casa real, com todos os servos do seu senhor: e não desceu à sua casa.
But Uriah did not go home. Instead, he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guards.
10 E o fizeram saber a David, dizendo: Urias não desceu a sua casa. Então disse David a Urias: Não vens tu de uma jornada? Porque não desceste a tua casa?
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]
11 E disse Urias a David: A arca, e Israel, e Judá ficam em tendas; e Joab meu senhor e os servos de meu senhor estão acampados no campo; e hei de eu entrar na minha casa, para comer e beber, e para me deitar com minha mulher? Pela tua vida, e pela vida da tua alma, não farei tal coisa.
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!”
12 Então disse David a Urias: Fica cá ainda hoje, e amanhã te despedirei. Urias pois ficou em Jerusalém aquele dia e o seguinte.
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.
13 E David o convidou, e comeu e bebeu diante dele, e o embebedou: e à tarde saiu a deitar-se na sua cama como os servos de seu senhor; porém não desceu a sua casa.
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.
14 E sucedeu que pela manhã David escreveu uma carta a Joab: e mandou-lha por mão de Urias.
[Someone reported that to] David, [so] the next morning he wrote a letter to Joab, and gave it to Uriah to take to Joab.
15 Escreveu na carta, dizendo: Ponde a Urias na frente da maior força da peleja; e retirai-vos de detraz dele, para que seja ferido e morra.
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].”
16 Aconteceu, pois, que, tendo Joab observado bem a cidade, pôs a Urias no lugar onde sabia que havia homens valentes.
[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.
17 E, saindo os homens da cidade, e pelejando com Joab, cairam alguns do povo, dos servos de David: e morreu também Urias, o hetheu.
The men from the city came out and fought with Joab’s soldiers. They killed some of David’s officers, including Uriah.
18 Então enviou Joab, e fez saber a David todo o successo daquela peleja.
Then Joab sent a messenger to David to tell him about the fighting.
19 E deu ordem ao mensageiro, dizendo: Acabando tu de contar ao rei todo o successo desta peleja;
He said to the messenger, “Tell David the news about the battle. After you finish telling that to him,
20 E sucedendo que o rei se encolerize, e te diga: Porque vos chegastes tão perto da cidade a pelejar? Não sabieis vós que haviam de atirar do muro?
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 Quem feriu a Abimelech, filho de Jerubbeseth? Não lançou uma mulher sobre ele do muro um pedaço de uma mó corredora, de que morreu em Thebes? Porque vos chegastes ao muro? Então dirás: também morreu teu servo Urias, o hetheu.
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 E foi o mensageiro, e entrou, e fez saber a David tudo, porque Joab o enviara dizer.
So the messenger went and told David everything that Joab told him to say.
23 E disse o mensageiro a David: Na verdade que mais poderosos foram aqueles homens do que nós, e sairam a nós ao campo; porém nós fomos contra eles, até à entrada da porta
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 Então os flecheiros atiraram contra os teus servos desde o alto do muro, e morreram alguns dos servos do rei: e também morreu o teu servo Urias, o hetheu.
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.”
25 E disse David ao mensageiro: Assim dirás a Joab: Não te pareça isto mal aos teus olhos; pois a espada tanto consome este como aquele: esforça a tua peleja contra a cidade, e a derrota: esforça-o tu assim.
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.”
26 Ouvindo pois a mulher de Urias que Urias seu marido era morto, lamentou a seu senhor.
When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband had died, she mourned for him.
27 E, passado o nojo, enviou David, e a recolheu em sua casa, e lhe foi por mulher, e pariu-lhe um filho. Porém esta coisa que David fez pareceu mal aos olhos do Senhor.
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.
