2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
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2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
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2 Samuel 11:18
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel 11:19
and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
2 Samuel 11:20
it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
2 Samuel 11:21
Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’ ”
2 Samuel 11:22
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
2 Samuel 11:23
The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
2 Samuel 11:24
The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
2 Samuel 11:26
When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
2 Samuel 11:27
When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
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2 Samuel 11:14
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:15
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.”
2 Samuel 11:16
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
2 Samuel 11:17
The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
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2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
1 Chronicles 20:1
At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
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2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
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2 Samuel 11:10
When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 11:12
David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
2 Samuel 11:13
When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
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1 Kings 14:5
Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
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Psalms 22:20
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.
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Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
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