II Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 323

11-6 THE PERIOD OF SAMUEL.-—II. SAM. 12-5 (Bi C. IO35 ) im]? murhgr uf muah the whole of the events of the battle to

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Send Uriah the Hitite to ]’0a,b accordingly sent Uriah to David, and Uriah came to him, Is ]’0ab well? and the army ·we11? and the war Then David Go down to your house, and wash your feet} Uriah accordingly left the palace

of the king, but went after the busi· ness ofthe king. Afterwards Uriah lay down in the court- of the king’s palace with all the oiiicers of his Prince, and did not go to his own house. But David was informed, ‘ Uriah has not gone to his house. David consequently asked Uriah,

‘ How is it when you have come from a journey, that you have not gone to your house The

Ark, and Israel, and judah remain in tents, with my commander ]’oab; and the officers of my Prince lie on the surface of the field, so should I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? By your life! and by the life of your soul, I would not do such a thing as that! Stay

here to-day, and to-morrow I will send you off} Uriah, therefore, remained in

jerusalem that day and the next, and David invited him, and he ate in his-presence, and he gave him drink, and made him drunk ;—~—yet he went at night and lay down in his bed, with other officers of his Prince-, and did not go down to his home! Consequently when morning came David wrote a letter to }’oab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah, and wrote in the letter commanding, ‘ Station Uriah to—morrow in the front ofthe battle, at the most dangerous place; then you withdraw from his rear, and let him be assailed and j’oab was then besieging the city,

so he posted Uriah at the spot where he knew there were brave men; and those men sallied out of the city and attacked ]’oab, who fell back with the troops of the ofiicers of David, and Uriah the Hitite was killed. Then. ]’oal> sent and informed David of all the events ofthe battle, and in~ Tell the king. But if it happen that it raises anger in the king, and he says to you, ‘ Why did you approach the city to fight ? Did you not know they would see you from the wall Who hit Abimalek-ben—]erubal? Was it not a woman who flung upon him a piece of a rnillstone from off the wall, and killed him?’ Then you must say, ‘Also your ofhcer, Uriah the Hitite has been killed. So the messenger went, and came,

and reported to David all that ]’oab sent him for. The messenger also The men overpowered us, and came out to us in the open field when we advanced opposite the gate, and the sentinels picked out your ohicers from off the wall, and killed some of the ofiicers of the king,-~and your General Uriah the Hitite aiso was killed. Then David said to the messenger.

‘Say this to ]'oab, ‘Let not this event be grievous in your eyes, for the sword devours here and there. Be energetic in your assault upon the city, and breach it, and master it.’ When the wife of Uriah heard he

was dead she mourned over her lord, and refused to eat. David, however, sent and added her to his family, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was wrong in the sight ofthe Evsn·r.1v1Nc. (ac. 1034.) ,-{Ratbane §aralil·· @12 little ®i¤2~§amlr. The Evan-Livme consequently

sent Nathan the Preacher to David, and he came to him, and said : ‘ There were two men in a certain

city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very great flocks and herds, but the poor had nothing except a little single she·lamb, which he had bought, and he comforted it and it grew up with him and his children, and ate of his crumbs, and drank of his cup, and lay on his lap, and was like a daughter to him. ‘ But a traveller came to the rich

man, who grudged to take from his own Hooks and herds to prepare and offer to his visitor, but seized the she-lamb of the poor man and pre— pared it for the man who had come Then David was very furious at the 323 20 21 22 26 12