2 Samuel 11:20 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

²⁰ he may get angry and ask, “Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Then if the king's anger rises and he says to you, Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know they would shoot from the wall?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

Common English Bible

²⁰ “if the king gets angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? didn’t you know they would shoot from the wall?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ if you see him to be angry, and if he says: 'Why did you draw near to the wall in order to fight? Are you ignorant that many darts are thrown from above the wall?

2 Samuel 11:20 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

2 Samuel 11:19

He gave the messenger these orders: When you finish telling the king everything that has happened,

2 Samuel 11:21

Don't you know how Abimelech the son of Gideon was killed at Thebez? Didn't a woman kill him by dropping a large rock from the top of the city wall? Why did you go so close to the city walls?” Then tell him, “One of your soldiers who was killed was Uriah the Hittite.”