1Xyoo tom qab, thaum lub caij nplooj ntoos hlav, yog lub caij uas cov vajntxwv ibtxwm tawm mus tua rog, Daviv thiaj txib Yau-am nrog nws cov nomtswv thiab cov tubrog Yixalayees mus tua rog; lawv thiaj mus tua yeej cov Amoos thiab mus vij lub nroog Lanpas. Tiamsis Daviv nyob hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees. 2Muaj ib hnub thaum tavsu dua, Daviv sawv saum nws lub txaj nce mus rau saum rutsev qhov uas tiaj tiaj. Daviv ncig mus ncig los saud, nws pom ib tug pojniam tabtom da dej hauv tus pojniam ntawd lub tsev. Tus pojniam ntawd zoo nkauj heev. 3Yog li ntawd, Daviv thiaj txib neeg mus nug saib tus pojniam ntawd yog leejtwg. Thaum paub hais tias tus pojniam ntawd yog Eli-as tus ntxhais Npasenpas thiab yog Uliyas uas yog neeg Hitis tus pojniam. 4Daviv txib neeg mus hu Npasenpas tuaj; lawv thiaj mus coj Npasenpas tuaj cuag Daviv, ces Daviv cia li coj nws mus nrog Daviv pw. (Npasenpas nyuam qhuav coj khaubncaws dua thiab ua kevcai ntxuav tas xwb.) Ces Npasenpas txawm rov mus tsev lawm. 5Tom qab ntawd Npasenpas paub hais tias nws cev xeeb tub lawm, nws thiaj tso xov mus rau Daviv paub. 6Ces Daviv txawm txib neeg mus hais rau Yau-am hais tias, “Koj tso Uliyas tus uas yog neeg Hitis los cuag kuv.” Yog li ntawd, Yau-am thiaj tso Uliyas los cuag Daviv. 7Thaum Uliyas los txog, Daviv nug nws txog Yau-am thiab cov tubrog saib puas noj qab nyob zoo, thiab kev sib ntaus sib tua ua li cas lawm. 8Ces Daviv rov hais rau Uliyas hais tias, “Koj cia li mus so tom tsev ib ntu tso.” Uliyas txawm tawm lawm, thiab Daviv xa mentsis khoom mus pub rau Uliyas tom tsev. 9Tiamsis Uliyas tsis mus tsev li; nws cia li mus nrog cov tubrog uas zov vajntxwv pw ntawm roojloog xwb. 10Thaum Daviv hnov hais tias Uliyas tsis mus tsev, Daviv txawm nug Uliyas hais tias, “Koj twb ncaim vajtse mus tau ntev lawm nyuam qhuav rov los txog no; vim li cas koj tsis mus xyuas tsev?” 11Uliyas teb hais tias, “Cov tubrog Yixalayees thiab cov Yudas puavleej nyob hauv tshavrog, thiab lub Phijxab uas ntim Vajtswv tej lus cog tseg los tseem nrog lawv nyob; kuv tus thawj tubrog Yau-am thiab nws cov thawj tubrog puavleej nyob tom tshavrog. Kuv yuav ua li cas mus tsev, mus noj mus haus, thiab nrog kuv tus pojniam pw? Koj tseem muaj sia nyob, kuv thov coglus hais tias kuv tsis ua li ntawd ib zaug li.” 12Yog li ntawd, Daviv thiaj hais tias, “Hnub no koj cia li so twjywm ntawm no, tagkis kuv yuav muab koj xa rov qab mus.” Hnub ntawd Uliyas thiaj so hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees ib hnub thiab hnub tom qab ib hnub. 13Daviv caw Uliyas los noj mov thiab muab cawv rau nws haus qaug heev. Tiamsis hmo ntawd Uliyas kuj tsis mus tsev li thiab; Uliyas cia li muab nws daim pam pua pw hauv chav tsev uas cov tubrog zov vajntxwv nyob. 14Ces tagkis sawv ntxov Daviv sau ib tsab ntawv rau Uliyas nqa mus rau Yau-am. 15Daviv sau hais tias, “Yog qhov twg sib tua hnyav, koj tso Uliyas tuaj tom hauv ntej, ces nej cia li thim rov qab thiab tso nws tseg kom nws raug tua tuag.” 16Yog li ntawd, thaum Yau-am tabtom mus vij ib lub nroog, nws thiaj kom Uliyas mus rau ntawm qhov chaw uas Yau-am paub hais tias cov yeebncuab nyob coob tshaj plaws. 17Yeebncuab tawm hauv nroog tuaj tua Yau-am cov tubrog; Daviv cov tubrog ibtxhia thiaj raug tua tuag thiab Uliyas los raug tua tuag lawm. 18Ces Yau-am xa xov los qhia rau Daviv paub txog tej kev sib tua, 19thiab Yau-am hais rau tus xa xov hais tias, “Tom qab uas koj qhia tej kev sib tua rau vajntxwv tas lawm, 20tej zaum nws yuav chim heev thiab nug koj hais tias, ‘Vim li cas nej yuav mus ti nkaus hauv nroog, nej mam li tua lawv? Nej tsis paub hais tias lawv yuav tua hneevnti hauv ntsa yeej tuaj rau nej no los? 21Nej tsis nco qab qhov uas Nkide-oos tus tub Anpimelej raug tua tuag los? Anpimelej tuag twb yog ib tug pojniam hauv lub nroog Thenpej tso ib txhib zeb saum ntsa yeej los ntaus nws tuag. Vim li cas, nej yuav mus ti nkaus rau ntawm ntsa yeej li?’ Yog vajntxwv nug koj li no, koj cia li qhia nws hais tias, ‘Dua li ntawd koj tus thawj tubrog Uliyas los raug tua tuag lawm thiab.’ ” 22Yog li ntawd, tus xa xov thiaj mus cuag Daviv thiab qhia txhua yam uas Yau-am hais rau nws lawm. 23Nws hais tias, “Peb cov yeebncuab coob tshaj peb thiab lawv tawm tuaj tua peb rau nraum ntug nroog, tiamsis peb muab lawv raws tua thim khiav rov qab mus tas rau hauv roojvag nroog lawm. 24Ces lawv thiaj tua hneevnti sab ntsa yeej hauv tuaj rau peb, Vajntxwv cov thawj tubrog thiaj raug xub hneevnti tuag ibtxhia lawm; thiab koj tus thawj tubrog Uliyas los raug tua tuag lawm thiab.” 25Daviv hais rau tus xa xov hais tias, “Cia li txhawb Yau-am zog thiab hais kom nws tsis txhob tu siab, rau qhov tsis paub hais tias xyov leejtwg yuav raug tua tuag rau hauv tshavrog. Koj hais rau nws kom kavtsij nqis tes tua thiab txeeb kom tau lub nroog ntawd.” 26Thaum Npasenpas hnov hais tias nws tus txiv raug tua tuag lawm, nws quaj nws tus txiv heev. 27Lub sijhawm uas Npasenpas quaj nws tus txiv dhau lawm, Daviv thiaj mus coj nws los rau hauv loog; Daviv yuav Npasenpas ua Daviv tus pojniam thiab Npasenpas yug tau ib tug tub rau Daviv. Tiamsis tus TSWV tsis txaus siab rau tej uas Daviv tau ua tas los ntawd.
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David, Bathsheba, and Uriah
1It happened in the spring of the year, at the ⚓time when kings go out tobattle, that ⚓David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged ⚓Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed ⚓and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he ⚓saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. 3So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife ⚓of Uriah the ⚓Hittite?” 4Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and ⚓he lay with her, for she was ⚓cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 5And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” 6Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. 8And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and ⚓wash your feet.” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift offood from the king followed him. 9But Uriah slept at the ⚓door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?” 11And Uriah said to David, ⚓“The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and ⚓my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.” 12Then David said to Uriah, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him ⚓drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed ⚓with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. 14In the morning it happened that David ⚓wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may ⚓be struck down and die.” 16So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 18Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war, 19and charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king, 20if it happens that the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: ‘Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21Who struck ⚓Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’ ” 22So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him. 23And the messenger said to David, “Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate. 24The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.” 25Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him.” 26When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she ⚓became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done ⚓displeased the Lord.