Uriah said to David, “The Holy Box [64] and the soldiers of Israel and Judah are staying in tents. My lord Joab, and my lord’s (King David’s) officers are camping out in the field. So it is not right for me to go home to drink, and sleep with my wife.”
Why are you trying to discourage the people of Israel? You will make them not want to cross the river and take the land that the Lord has given to them!
So why did you sit there
against the walls of your sheep pens? [47] The brave soldiers of Reuben
thought hard about war.
But they stayed home
listening to the music
they played for their sheep.