2 Samuel 11:15

New Living Translation

The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:16

So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting.

2 Samuel 11:17

And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why, then, have you despised the word of the Lord and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife.

1 Kings 15:5

For David had done what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight and had obeyed the Lord’s commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.

Psalm 51:14

Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

Jeremiah 20:13

Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord! For though I was poor and needy, he rescued me from my oppressors.

1 Samuel 18:17

One day Saul said to David, “I am ready to give you my older daughter, Merab, as your wife. But first you must prove yourself to be a real warrior by fighting the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “I’ll send him out against the Philistines and let them kill him rather than doing it myself.”

1 Samuel 18:21

“Here’s another chance to see him killed by the Philistines!” Saul said to himself. But to David he said, “Today you have a second chance to become my son-in-law!”

1 Samuel 18:25

he told them, “Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.” But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.