2 Samuel 11:16

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!

Proverbs 29:12

If rulers listen to lying words, their servants all become wicked.

2 Kings 10:6

So Jehu wrote them a second letter: “If you are on my side and will obey me, bring along the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” (The seventy princes were in the care of prominent men of the city, who were rearing them.)

1 Kings 2:5

“You yourself know what Joab, son of Zeruiah, did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner, son of Ner, and Amasa, son of Jether: he killed them and brought the blood of war into a time of peace, and put the blood of war on the belt about his waist and the sandal on his foot.

2 Samuel 11:21

Who killed Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal? Was it not a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall above, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’ Then you in turn are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the city gate to speak with him privately. There he stabbed him in the abdomen, and he died for the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

2 Samuel 11:15

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.”

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.