2 Samweli 11
1 Ikawa wakati wa majira ya kipupwe, wakati ambapo kwa kawaida wafalme huenda vitani, Daudi akamtuma Yoabu, mtumishi wake, na jeshi lote la Israeli. Wakaliaribu jeshi la Amoni na kuuhusuru Raba. Lakini Daudi akakaa Yerusalemu.
It came about in the springtime, at the time when kings normally go to war, that David sent out Joab, his servants, and all the army of Israel. They destroyed the army of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem.
2 Hivyo ikawa siku moja wakati wa jioni Daudi akaamka kutoka kitandani na akatembea katika dari la kasri. Akiwa pale akamwona mwanamke aliyekuwa akioga, mwanamke yule alikuwa mzuri sana kwa mwonekano.
So it came about one evening that David got up from his bed and walked on the roof of his palace. From there he happened to see a woman who was bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
3 Hivyo Daudi akatuma na kuuliza watu waliomfahamu yule mwanamke. Mtu mmoja akasema, “Je huyu siye Bathsheba, binti Eliamu, naye si mke wa Uria mhiti?
So David sent and he asked people who would know about the woman. Someone said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, and is she not the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
4 Daudi akatuma wajumbe nao wakamchukua; akaja kwake, na akalala naye(kwani ndo alikuwa amejitakasa kutoka siku zake). Kisha akarudi nyumbani kwake.
David sent messengers and took her; she came in to him, and he slept with her (for she had just purified herself from menstruation). Then she returned to her house.
5 Mwanamke akawa mjamzito, naye akatuma na kumwambia Daudi; akasema, “mimi ni mjamzito.”
The woman conceived, and she sent and told David; she said, “I am pregnant.”
6 Kisha Daudi akatuma watu kwa Yoabu kusema, “Umtume kwangu Uria mhiti.” Hivyo Yoabu akamtuma Uria kwa Daudi.
Then David sent to Joab saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 Uria alipofika, Daudi akamuuliza hali ya Yoabu. Jinsi jeshi lilivyokuwa likiendelea, na jinsi vita vilivyokuwa vinaendelea.
When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab was, how the army was doing, and how the war was going.
8 Daudi akamwambia Uria, “Shuka nyumbani kwako, unawe miguu yako. “Hivyo Uria akaondoka katika kasri la mfalme, mfalme akamtumia zawadi kwa Uria.
David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the king's palace, and the king sent a gift for Uriah after he left.
9 Lakini Uria akalala pamoja na watumishi wa bwana wake katika lango la kasri, wala hakushuka nyumbani kwake.
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's palace with all the servants of his master, and he did not go down to his house.
10 Daudi alipoambiwa, “Uria hakushuka nyumbani kwake,” akamwambia Uria, Je haukutoka safarini? Kwa nini haukushuka nyumbani kwako?”
When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
11 Uria akamjibu Daudi, “Sanduku, na Israeli na Yuda wamo kwenye mahema, na Yoabu na watumishi wa bwana wangu wamepiga hema uwandani. Jinsi gani basi mimi naweza kwenda nyumbani kwangu kula kunywa na kulala na mke wangu? kwa hakika kama uishivyo, sitafanya hivyo.
Uriah answered David, “The ark, and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my master's servants are camped in an open field. How then can I go into my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? As sure as you are alive, I will not do this.”
12 Hivyo Daudi akamwambia Uria, “Ukae leo pia, kesho nitakuacha uende.” Kwa hiyo uria akakaa Yerusalemu siku hiyo na iliyofuata.
So David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you leave.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
13 Daudi alipomwita, alikula na kunywa pamoja naye, Daudi akamfanya alewe. Wakati wa jioni Uria akaenda kulala kitandani pake pamoja na watumish wa bwana wake; hakushuka nyumbani kwake.
When David called him, he ate and drank before him, and David made him drunk. At evening Uriah went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his master; he did not go down to his house.
14 Hivyo asubuhi Daudi akamwandikia Yoabu barua, naye akaituma kwa mkono wa Uria.
So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 Ndani ya barua Daudi aliandika hivi, “Mweke Uria mbele ya vita vikali sana, na kisha, mmwache, ili apigwe na afe.
David wrote in the letter saying, “Set Uriah at the very front of the most intense battle, and then withdraw from him, that he may be hit and killed.”
16 Hivyo Yoabu alipoona mji ukizingirwa, alimweka Uria katika sehemu aliyojua askari adui wenye nguvu wangekuwa wakipigana.
So as Joab watched the siege upon the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers would be fighting.
17 Wakati watu wa mji walipotoka na kupigana dhidi ya jeshi la Yoabu, baadhi ya askari wa Daudi wakaanguka, na Uria Mhiti pia akauwawa.
When the men of the city went out and fought against Joab's army, some of the soldiers of David fell, and Uriah the Hittite was also killed there.
18 Wakati Yoabu alipotuma neno kwa mfalme kuhusu hali ya vita,
When Joab sent word to David about everything concerning the war,
19 alimwagiza mjumbe, kusema, “Utakapomaliza kumwambia mfalme kuhusu hali ya vita,
he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
20 yawezekana mfalme akakasirika, naye akakwambia, 'Kwa nini mlipigana na mji kwa karibu hivyo, hamkujua kwamba wangeweza kushambulia kutokea ukutani?
it may happen that the king will become angry, and he will say to you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
21 Ni nani aliyemwua Abimeleki mwana wa Yerubeshethi? Siye mwanamke aliyerusha jiwe la kusagia juu yake kutoka ukutani, hata akafa huko Thebesi? Kwanini basi mliukaribia ukuta jinsi hiyo? Nawe umjibu, 'Uria mtumishi wako amekufa pia.”
Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Did not 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 must answer, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'”
22 Hivyo mjumbe akaondoka na kwenda kwa Daudi akamwambia kila jambo ambalo Yoabu alimtuma kusema.
So the messenger left and went to David and told him everything that Joab had sent him to say.
23 Na mjumbe akamwambia Daudi, “Mwanzoni adui walikuwa na nguvu kuliko sisi; walitukabili uwandani, lakini tukawarudisha nyuma kwenye maingilio ya lango.
Then the messenger said to David, “The enemy were stronger than we were at first; they came out to us into the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
24 Na wapiga mishale wao wakawarushia watumishi wako kutoka ukutani, na baadhi ya watumishi wa mfalme wameuawa, na mtumishi wako Uria mhiti pia ameuawa.”
Then their shooters shot at your soldiers from off the wall, and some of the king's servants were killed, and your servant Uriah the Hittite was killed too.”
25 Kisha Daudi akamwambia mjumbe, “Mwambie hivi Yoabu, 'Usiruhusu jamba hili likuhuzunishe, kwa maana upanga huangamiza huyu kama uangamizavyo na mwingine. Vifanye vita vyako kuwa vyenye nguvu zaidi dhidi ya mji, na uuteke.' Mtie moyo Yoabu.”
Then David said to the messenger, “Say this to Joab, 'Do not let this displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle even stronger against the city, and overthrow it,' and encourage him.”
26 Hivyo mke Uria aliposikia kwamba mme wake amekufa, akaomboleza sana kwa ajili yake.
So when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented deeply for her husband.
27 Huzuni yake ilipoisha, Daudi akatuma na kumchukua kwake katika kasri lake, naye akawa mkewe na akamzalia mwana. Lakini alichokifanya Daudi hakikumpendeza Yahwe.
When her sorrow passed, David sent and took her home to his palace, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But what David had done displeased Yahweh.
