2 Samuel · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
2 Samuel 11 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 En la primavera, cuando los reyes salen a la guerra, David envió a Joab, a sus servidores y a todo Israel. Ellos destruyeron la tierra de los hijos de Amón y sitiaron Rabá. Pero David se quedó en Jerusalén.
1 At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
2 Una tarde David se levantó de la cama y caminó por la terraza de la casa del rey. Desde allí vio a una mujer que se bañaba. La mujer era muy hermosa.
2 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
3 David mandó averiguar quién era. Le dijeron: Es Betsabé, hija de Eliam y esposa de Urías el hitita.
3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
4 Entonces David mandó traerla. Ella vino a él, y David se acostó con ella. Ella se había purificado de su impureza. Después regresó a su casa.
4 David 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 house.
5 La mujer quedó embarazada y envió a David este mensaje: Estoy embarazada.
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
6 Entonces David mandó decir a Joab: Envíame a Urías el hitita. Y Joab envió a Urías a David.
6 David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 Cuando Urías llegó, David le preguntó cómo estaban Joab y el pueblo y cómo iba la guerra.
7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
8 Luego David dijo a Urías: Baja a tu casa y lávate los pies. Urías salió de la casa del rey, y detrás de él enviaron un regalo de parte del rey.
8 David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
9 Pero Urías durmió a la entrada de la casa del rey con todos los servidores de su señor y no bajó a su casa.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.
10 Informaron a David: Urías no bajó a su casa. Entonces David le preguntó: ¿No acabas de regresar de un viaje? ¿Por qué no fuiste a tu casa?
10 When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
11 Urías respondió: Israel y Judá viven en tiendas, y el arca también está en una tienda. Mi señor Joab y los servidores de mi señor acampan en campo abierto. ¿Cómo podría yo ir a mi casa, comer, beber y acostarme con mi esposa? Tan cierto como que vive el Señor y que tú vives, no haré tal cosa.
11 Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
12 David dijo a Urías: Quédate aquí hoy, y mañana te dejaré ir. Así que Urías permaneció en Jerusalén aquel día y el siguiente.
12 David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
13 David lo invitó a comer y beber con él y lo emborrachó. Pero al anochecer Urías fue a dormir con los servidores de su señor y no bajó a su casa.
13 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
14 A la mañana siguiente David escribió una carta a Joab y la envió por medio de Urías.
14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 En la carta escribió: Pongan a Urías en la primera línea, donde la batalla sea más violenta. Después retírense de él para que sea herido y muera.
15 He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.”
16 Mientras Joab sitiaba la ciudad, puso a Urías en el lugar donde sabía que estaban los mejores guerreros enemigos.
16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 Los hombres de la ciudad salieron y lucharon contra Joab. Murieron varios de los servidores de David, y entre ellos murió Urías el hitita.
17 The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18 Entonces Joab envió a David un informe de todo lo ocurrido en la batalla.
18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
19 Dio estas instrucciones al mensajero: Cuando termines de contar al rey todo lo sucedido en la guerra,
19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
20 quizá el rey se enoje y pregunte: ¿Por qué se acercaron tanto a la ciudad para luchar? ¿No sabían que los arqueros dispararían desde el muro?
20 it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
21 ¿Quién mató a Abimelec, hijo de Jerobaal? ¿No fue una mujer quien dejó caer sobre él una gran piedra desde el muro y lo mató en Tebes? ¿Por qué se acercaron tanto al muro? Entonces dile: También murió tu servidor Urías el hitita.
21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”
22 El mensajero fue a David y le contó todo lo que Joab le había encargado. Entonces David se enojó con Joab y dijo: ¿Por qué se acercaron tanto a la ciudad para luchar? ¿No sabían que los arqueros dispararían desde el muro? ¿Quién mató a Abimelec, hijo de Jerobaal? ¿No fue una mujer quien dejó caer sobre él una gran piedra desde el muro y lo mató en Tebes? ¿Por qué se acercaron tanto al muro?
22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
23 Le dijo: Los hombres nos superaron y salieron contra nosotros al campo abierto, pero los hicimos retroceder hasta la entrada de la ciudad.
23 The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
24 Entonces los arqueros dispararon desde el muro contra tus servidores. Algunos de los servidores del rey murieron, y entre ellos murió también tu servidor Urías el hitita.
24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
25 David dijo al mensajero: Dile a Joab: No te angusties por esto, porque la espada mata a uno igual que a otro. Intensifica el ataque contra la ciudad y destrúyela. Y tú dale ánimo.
25 Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
26 Cuando la esposa de Urías oyó que su esposo había muerto, hizo duelo por él.
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 Cuando terminó el tiempo de duelo, David mandó traerla a su casa. Ella llegó a ser su esposa y le dio un hijo. Pero lo que David había hecho desagradó al Señor.
27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Bathsheba
Wife of David and mother of Solomon, remembered amid both sin and grace.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 11-12; 1 Kings 1-2; Matthew 1:6
David
The shepherd who became Israel's greatest king and a man after God's own heart.
Cited in the guide: 1 Sam. 16 - 1 Kings 2; 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chron. 2:15; Matt. 1:6
Eliam
Named as the father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. 1 Chronicles 3:5 calls him Ammiel.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 11:3; 1 Chronicles 3:5
Uriah
A Hittite warrior, husband of Bathsheba, who would not go home while the ark and the army were in tents, and whom David had placed in the fiercest fighting so that he would be…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 11:3; 2 Samuel 11:11; 2 Samuel 11:15
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Chronicles 20:1; 1 Kings 20:26; 1 Kings 20:22; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Ecclesiastes 3:8
- 2 Matthew 5:28; Psalm 119:37; 1 John 2:16; Acts 10:9; Job 31:1
- 3 2 Samuel 23:39; 1 Chronicles 3:5; Jeremiah 5:8; James 1:14–15; 1 Chronicles 11:41
- 4 Leviticus 18:19; James 1:14–15; Psalm 51:1–19; Proverbs 30:20; Leviticus 12:2–5
- 5 Deuteronomy 22:22; Proverbs 6:34
- 6 Proverbs 28:13; Matthew 26:70; Isaiah 29:13; Job 20:12–14; Genesis 38:18–23
- 7 1 Samuel 17:22; Genesis 37:14; Genesis 29:6
- 8 Genesis 18:4; Isaiah 29:15; Luke 7:44; Luke 12:2; Psalm 55:21
- 9 Proverbs 21:30; Job 5:12–14
- 11 2 Samuel 7:2; 2 Samuel 20:6; 2 Samuel 7:6; 1 Samuel 1:26; 2 Timothy 2:12
- 12 Jeremiah 2:22–23; Jeremiah 2:37
- 13 Habakkuk 2:15; Genesis 19:32–35; Exodus 32:21; Proverbs 20:1
- 14 1 Kings 21:8–10; Jeremiah 17:9; Micah 7:3–5; Psalm 52:2; Psalm 19:13
- 15 2 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 51:4; 2 Samuel 11:17; Psalm 51:14; 1 Samuel 18:21
- 16 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Samuel 20:9–10; 2 Kings 10:6; 1 Kings 21:12–14; 2 Samuel 11:21
- 17 Psalm 51:14; 2 Samuel 12:9
- 21 Judges 9:50–54; Judges 7:1; 2 Samuel 3:27; Judges 6:32; 2 Samuel 3:34
- 25 2 Samuel 12:26; Ecclesiastes 9:1–3; 1 Samuel 6:9; Joshua 7:8–9; Ecclesiastes 9:11–12
- 26 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 3:31; Genesis 27:41
- 27 2 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 51:4–5; 1 Chronicles 21:7; Hebrews 13:4; Deuteronomy 22:29
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