RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

then you shall help me: but if the children of Ammon are
too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
12 Be of great courage, and let us show strength for our
people, and for the cities of our Elohim: and vuvh do that
which seems tov to Him.
13 And Yoav drew near, and the people that were with
him, to the battle against the Arameans: and they fled
before him.
14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the
Arameans had fled, then they fled also before Avishai,
and entered into the city. So Yoav returned from the
children of Ammon, and came to Yahrushalayim.
15 And when the Arameans saw that they were killed
before Yisrael, they gathered themselves together.
16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Arameans
that were beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and
Shovach the captain of the army of Hadarezer went
before them.
17 And when it was told to Dawid, he gathered kol
Yisrael together, and passed over the Yarden River, and
came to Helam. And the Arameans set themselves in
array against Dawid, and fought with him.
18 And the Arameans fled before Yisrael; and Dawid
killed the men of the seven hundred mirkavot of the
Arameans, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote
Shovach the captain of their army, who died there.
19 And when all the melechim that were avadim to
Hadarezer saw that they were killed before Yisrael, they
made shalom with Yisrael, and served them. So the
Arameans feared to help the children of Ammon any
more.
11 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the
time when melechim go forth to battle, that Dawid sent
Yoav, and his avadim with him, and kol Yisrael; and they
destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Ravah.
But Dawid stayed still at Yahrushalayim.
2 And it came to pass one evening, that Dawid arose from
his bed, and walked upon the roof of the melech's bayit:
and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and
the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
3 And Dawid sent and asked about the woman. And one
said, Is not this Bat-Sheva, the daughter of Eliam, the
wife of Uriyah the Hittite?
4 And Dawid sent messengers, and took her; and she
came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified
from her uncleanness: and she returned to her bayit.
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told Dawid,
and said, I am with child.
6 And Dawid sent to Yoav, saying, Send me Uriyah the
Hittite. And Yoav sent Uriyah to Dawid.
7 And when Uriyah came to him, Dawid demanded of
him how Yoav did, and how the people did, and how the
war was going.
8 And Dawid said to Uriyah, Go down to your bayit, and
wash your feet. And Uriyah departed out of the melech's
bayit, and there followed him a gift of food from the
melech.
9 But Uriyah slept at the door of the melech's bayit with
all the avadim of his master, and went not down to his
bayit.
10 And when they had told Dawid, saying, Uriyah went
not down to his bayit, Dawid said to Uriyah, Didn’t you
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come from your journey? Why then did you not go down
to your bayit?
11 And Uriyah said to Dawid, The Ark, and Yisrael, and
Yahudah, 826 still stay in tents; and my master Yoav, and
the avadim of my master, are encamped in the open
fields; shall I then go into my bayit, to eat and to drink,
and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your chayim
lives, I will not do this thing.
12 And Dawid said to Uriyah, Stay here today also, and
tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriyah stayed in
Yahrushalayim that day, and the next.
13 And when Dawid had called him, he did eat and drink
before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he
went out to lie on his bed with the avadim of his master,
but did not go down to his bayit.
14 And it came to pass in the morning, that Dawid wrote
a letter to Yoav, and sent it by the hand of Uriyah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Put Uriyah in the
front of the hottest battle, and then abandon him, that he
may be killed, and die.
16 And it came to pass, when Yoav observed the city that
he assigned Uriyah to a place where he knew that brave
men were.
17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with
Yoav: and there fell some of the people of the avadim of
Dawid; and Uriyah the Hittite died also.
18 Then Yoav sent and told Dawid all the things
concerning the war;
19 And commanded the messenger, saying, When you
have made an end of telling the matters of the war to the
melech,
20 And if it so be that the melech's anger arise, and he
says to you, Why did you approach so near to the city
when you fought? Did you not know they would shoot
from the wall?
21 The same people who smote Avimelech the son of
Yeruvesheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone
upon him from the wall that he died in Thebez? Why did
you go near the wall? Then you shall say, Your eved
Uriyah the Hittite is dead also.
22 So the messenger went, and came and showed Dawid
all that Yoav had sent him for.
23 And the messenger said to Dawid, Surely the men
prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and
we were upon them even to the entering of the gate.
24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon your
avadim; and some of the melech's avadim are dead, and
your eved Uriyah the Hittite is dead also.
25 Then Dawid said to the messenger, This shall you say
to Yoav, Let not this thing displease you, for the sword
devours one as well as another: make your battle stronger
against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage him.
26 And when the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah her
husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 And when the mourning was past, Dawid sent and
fetched her to his bayit, and she became his wife, and
bore him a son. But the thing that Dawid had done
displeased vuvh.
12
And vuvh sent Natan to Dawid. And he came to him,
and said to him, There were two men in one city; the one
rich, and the other poor.
2 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds: