2 Samuel 11:16

Good News Translation

So while Joab was besieging the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:15

He wrote: “Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed.”

2 Samuel 11:17

The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.

2 Samuel 11:21

Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?’ If the king asks you this, tell him, ‘Your officer Uriah was also killed.’”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner arrived in Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. And so Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

1 Kings 2:5

“There is something else. You remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace as revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men, and now I bear the responsibility for what he did, and I suffer the consequences.

2 Kings 10:6

Jehu wrote them another letter: “If you are with me and are ready to follow my orders, bring the heads of King Ahab's descendants to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” The seventy descendants of King Ahab were under the care of the leading citizens of Samaria, who were bringing them up.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler pays attention to false information, all his officials will be liars.

Hosea 5:11

Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.

Acts 5:29

Peter and the other apostles answered, “We must obey God, not men.