The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriyah the Chittite is dead also.
2 Samuel 11:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Yo'av, Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then David said to the messenger, Say to Joab, Let not this thing disturb you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack upon the city and overthrow it. And encourage Joab. American Standard Version (1901) Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. Common English Bible David said to the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t be upset about this because the sword is that way: taking the life of this person or that person. Continue attacking the city and destroy it!’ Encourage Joab!” Catholic Public Domain Version And David said to the messenger: "You shall say these things to Joab: 'Do not let this matter dishearten you. For varied are the events of war. Now this one, and now that one, is consumed by the sword. Encourage your warriors against the city and exhort them, so that you may destroy it.' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing discourage thee; Encourage thy warriors against the city: and exhort them that thou mayest overthrow it. |
The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriyah the Chittite is dead also.
When the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
Now Yo'av fought against Rabbah of the children of `Ammon, and took the royal city.
The people, the men of Yisra'el, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beit-Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us.*