2 Samuel 11:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁵ 0 If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are thrown from above off the wall?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, Put Uriah in the front line of the heaviest fighting and withdraw from him, that he may be struck down and die.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ He wrote in the letter, “Place Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle, and then pull back from him so that he will be struck down and die.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ writing in the letter: "Place Uriah opposite the warfare, where the battle is the strongest, and then abandon him, so that, having been wounded, he may die."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.

2 Samuel 11:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:16

1 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.

2 Samuel 11:17

2 So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab had commanded him.

2 Samuel 12:9

4 Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die.

1 Kings 15:5

0 And he reigned one end forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

Psalm 51:14

All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 51:4

1 Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:

Jeremiah 17:9

7 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.

Jeremiah 20:13

And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias:

1 Samuel 18:17

2 And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately, saying: Behold thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee. Now therefore be the king's son in law.

1 Samuel 18:21

6 And when his servants had told David the words that Saul had said, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David to be the king's son in law.

1 Samuel 18:25

0 And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous.