The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 11:18 (KJV)
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 11:19 (KJV)
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

 

[slave]

[FONT=&quot][h=1](2 Samuel 11:20): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]20 and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?[/FONT]


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[slave]

[h=1](2 Samuel 11:21): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw 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 dead also.’”[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 11:22 (KJV)
So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 11:23 (KJV)
And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 11:24 (KJV)
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 11:25New International Version - UK (NIVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]25 David told the messenger, ‘Say this to Joab: “Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.” Say this to encourage Joab.’[/FONT]

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 11:26
New International Version (NIV)

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 11:27 (KJV)
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 12:1 (KJV)
And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 12:2English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 12:3 (KJV)
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 12:4English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]4 Now there came a traveller to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”[/FONT]

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 12:5
New International Version (NIV)

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this must die!

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 12:6 (KJV)
And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 12:7English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

(2 Samuel 12:8): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)

8 I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!

 

[slave]

[FONT=&quot][h=1](2 Samuel 12:9): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.[/FONT]


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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 12:10 (KJV)
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.