2 Samuel 11:15 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ In the letter he wrote, “Put Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and withdraw from him so that he may be struck down and die.”

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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

So it came to pass, when Joab was besieging the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

2 Samuel 11:17

Then the men of the city came out and attacked Joab, and some of the troops of David’s officers fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why then have you despised the word of Adonai by doing such evil in My eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to be your wife, and him you have slain with the sword of the children of Ammon

1 Kings 15:5

For David did what was right in Adonai’s eyes and did not turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Psalm 51:14

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51:4

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?

Jeremiah 20:13

Sing to Adonai, praise Adonai! For He has delivered the soul of the needy one from the hand of evildoers.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab—I give her to you as a wife. Only continue to be my son of valor and fight Adonai’s battles.” For Saul thought, “My hand needn’t be against him—let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “I will give her to him, so that she may become a snare to him—and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” So Saul said to David, “You can still become my son-in-law, even today, with the second one.”

1 Samuel 18:25

Then Saul said, “Thus you will say to David, ‘The king desires no bridal dowry except 100 foreskins of the Philistines—to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” So Saul schemed to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.