2 Samuel 11:14

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

2 Samuel 11:14

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Berean Standard Bible

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

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KJV

King James Version

¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.

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WEB

World English Bible

In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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ASV

American Standard Version

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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2 Samuel 11

¹² “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

¹³ Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

¹⁴ The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

¹⁵ In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”

¹⁶ So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.

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