2 Samuel 11:15

New American Bible - revised edition

This is what he wrote in the letter: “Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the Lord and done what is evil in his sight? You have cut down Uriah the Hittite with the sword; his wife you took as your own, and him you killed with the sword of the Ammonites.

1 Samuel 18:17

Saul said to David, “Look, I will give you my older daughter, Merob, in marriage if you become my warrior and fight the battles of the Lord.” Saul thought, “I will not lay a hand on him. Let the hand of the Philistines strike him.”

Jeremiah 20:13

Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, For he has rescued the life of the poor from the power of the evildoers!

Psalm 51:14

Restore to me the gladness of your salvation; uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51:4

Thoroughly wash away my guilt; and from my sin cleanse me.

2 Samuel 11:17

When the men of the city made a sortie against Joab, some officers of David’s army fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul commanded them, “Say this to David: The king desires no other price for the bride than the foreskins of one hundred Philistines, that he may thus take vengeance on his enemies.” Saul intended to have David fall into the hands of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 18:21

He thought, “I will offer her to him as a trap, so that the hand of the Philistines may strike him.” So for the second time Saul said to David, “You shall become my son-in-law today.”

2 Samuel 11:16

So while Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the defenders were strong.

1 Kings 15:5

because David had done what was right in the sight of the Lord and did not disobey any of his commands as long as he lived, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil—

Jeremiah 17:9

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?