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1 En la primavera del año siguiente, que era la época en que los reyes salían a la guerra, David envió a Joab y a sus oficiales y a todo el ejército para que atacaran a los amonitas y sitiaran la ciudad de 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, después de tomar la siesta, David se levantó y comenzó a caminar por la terraza del palacio. Mientras contemplaba la ciudad, vio a una mujer muy hermosa, que se estaba bañando.
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 Envió a investigar el nombre de ella y supo que era Betsabé, hija de Elián 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 David la mandó a buscar. Cuando Betsabé llegó, David se acostó con ella. Betsabé apenas acababa de completar los ritos de la purificación después de la menstruación. 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 Cuando se dio cuenta de que había quedado embarazada, envió un recado a David para informárselo.
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
6 David, entonces, envió el siguiente mensaje a Joab: «Envíame a Urías el hitita».
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 ejército, y cómo se desarrollaba 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 le dijo que se fuera a su casa y estuviera con su esposa. Al salir del palacio, Urías recibió 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 no fue a su casa, sino que pasó aquella noche en la puerta del palacio, con los otros siervos del rey.
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 Cuando David oyó lo que Urías había hecho lo llamó y le preguntó: ―¿Qué te ocurre? ¿Por qué no fuiste a dormir a tu casa después de haber estado tanto tiempo fuera?
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: ―El cofre, Israel y Judá, Joab y todo el ejército de mi señor están durmiendo en los campamentos, a la intemperie. ¿Cómo podría yo ir a casa a beber, comer y dormir con mi esposa? Juro que jamás 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 ―Bien —le dijo David—. Mañana puedes regresar al campo de batalla. Urías se quedó cerca del palacio.
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 a beber, y lo hizo embriagarse, pero ni aun así quiso ir a su casa esa noche sino que durmió a la entrada del palacio.
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 Al día siguiente, David escribió una carta para Joab y se 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 La carta ordenaba a Joab que pusiera a Urías en la primera línea de batalla, cuando el combate fuera más fuerte, y que luego lo dejaran solo para que lo mataran.
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 Así que Joab colocó a Urías en un punto muy cercano a la ciudad sitiada, donde sabía que estaban peleando los mejores hombres del enemigo.
16 When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 Y Urías murió, junto con otros varios de los soldados de David.
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 Cuando Joab envió un informe a David de cómo iba la batalla,
18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
19 le dijo al mensajero: ―Si el rey se enoja y pregunta: “Por qué los soldados se acercan tanto a la ciudad? ¿No sabían que ellos estarían disparando desde las murallas? ¿No recuerdan cómo murió Abimélec hijo de Yerubéset? ¡Recuerden que fue una mujer de Tebes quien, desde la muralla, le arrojó una piedra de molino y lo mató!” entonces le dirás: “Urías también murió en el combate”.
19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
20 Not in this translation
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 Not in this translation
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 llegó a Jerusalén y le dio el informe a David:
22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
23 ―El enemigo salió en contra de nosotros —dijo—, y mientras los perseguíamos hacia las puertas 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 los hombres que estaban en la muralla nos atacaron y mataron a algunos de los nuestros. También Urías el hitita murió.
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 ―Bien, dile a Joab que no se desaliente —dijo David—. La espada mata unas veces a unos y otras veces a otros. Peleen con más ardor la próxima vez, conquisten la ciudad y destrúyanla. Dile que está haciendo bien.
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 Betsabé supo que su marido había perdido la vida, lo lloró.
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 Pasado el tiempo del duelo, David ordenó que se la llevaran al palacio, y la hizo su esposa. En el tiempo señalado, ella dio a luz un hijo. Pero al Señor no le agradó lo que David había hecho.
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 (19)
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
- 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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But when his lust prompted him to take Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Scripture said concerning him, "Now, the thing (sermo) which David had done appeared wicked in the eyes of the Lord;" and Nathan the prophet is sent to him, pointing out to him his crime, in order that he, passing sentence upon and condemning himself, might obtain …