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David Arranges Uriah’s Death

2 Samuel 11:14

In 11 translations

BSB
The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
KJV
¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
WEB
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
ASV
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
LSV
And it comes to pass in the morning that David writes a letter to Joab and sends [it] by the hand of Uriah;
YLT
And it cometh to pass in the morning, that David writeth a letter unto Joab, and sendeth by the hand of Uriah;
DBY
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by Urijah.
DRC
And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,
GNV
And on the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.
JPS
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
LXXE
And the morning came, and David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Urias.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְהִ֣י בַבֹּ֔קֶר וַיִּכְתֹּ֥ב דָּוִ֛ד סֵ֖פֶר אֶל־יוֹאָ֑ב וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח בְּיַ֥ד אוּרִיָּֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐγένετο πρωῒ, καὶ ἔγραψε Δαυὶδ βιβλίον πρὸς Ἰωὰβ, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ Οὐρίου.

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  • 1 Kings 21:8–10Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city. In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor…
  • Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
  • Jeremiah 9:1–4Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people…
  • Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
  • Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
  • Psalms 19:13Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
  • Micah 7:3–5Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together. The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge…

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