2 Samuel 11:15

English Standard Version 2016

In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

Jeremiah 20:13

Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

2 Samuel 11:17

And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.

1 Samuel 18:25

Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”

2 Samuel 11:16

And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.

1 Kings 15:5

because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?