撒母耳记下 11
1 过了一年，到列王出战的时候，大卫又差派约押，率领臣仆和以色列众人出战。他们就打败亚扪人，围攻拉巴。大卫仍住在耶路撒冷。
It came about in the springtime, at the time when kings normally go to war, that David sent out Joab, his servants, and all the army of Israel. They destroyed the army of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem.
2 一日，太阳平西，大卫从床上起来，在王宫的平顶上游行，看见一个妇人沐浴，容貌甚美，
So it came about one evening that David got up from his bed and walked on the roof of his palace. From there he happened to see a woman who was bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
3 大卫就差人打听那妇人是谁。有人说：“她是以连的女儿，赫人乌利亚的妻拔示巴。”
So David sent and he asked people who would know about the woman. Someone said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, and is she not the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
4 大卫差人去，将妇人接来；那时她的月经才得洁净。她来了，大卫与她同房，她就回家去了。
David sent messengers and took her; she came in to him, and he slept with her (for she had just purified herself from menstruation). Then she returned to her house.
5 于是她怀了孕，打发人去告诉大卫说：“我怀了孕。”
The woman conceived, and she sent and told David; she said, “I am pregnant.”
6 大卫差人到约押那里，说：“你打发赫人乌利亚到我这里来。”约押就打发乌利亚去见大卫。
Then David sent to Joab saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 乌利亚来了，大卫问约押好，也问兵好，又问争战的事怎样。
When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab was, how the army was doing, and how the war was going.
8 大卫对乌利亚说：“你回家去，洗洗脚吧！”乌利亚出了王宫，随后王送他一分食物。
David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the king's palace, and the king sent a gift for Uriah after he left.
9 乌利亚却和他主人的仆人一同睡在宫门外，没有回家去。
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's palace with all the servants of his master, and he did not go down to his house.
10 有人告诉大卫说：“乌利亚没有回家去。”大卫就问乌利亚说：“你从远路上来，为什么不回家去呢？”
When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
11 乌利亚对大卫说：“约柜和以色列与犹大兵都住在棚里，我主约押和我主的仆人都在田野安营，我岂可回家吃喝、与妻子同寝呢？我敢在王面前起誓：我决不行这事！”
Uriah answered David, “The ark, and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my master's servants are camped in an open field. How then can I go into my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? As sure as you are alive, I will not do this.”
12 大卫吩咐乌利亚说：“你今日仍住在这里，明日我打发你去。”于是乌利亚那日和次日住在耶路撒冷。
So David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you leave.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
13 大卫召了乌利亚来，叫他在自己面前吃喝，使他喝醉。到了晚上，乌利亚出去与他主的仆人一同住宿，还没有回到家里去。
When David called him, he ate and drank before him, and David made him drunk. At evening Uriah went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his master; he did not go down to his house.
14 次日早晨，大卫写信与约押，交乌利亚随手带去。
So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 信内写着说：“要派乌利亚前进，到阵势极险之处，你们便退后，使他被杀。”
David wrote in the letter saying, “Set Uriah at the very front of the most intense battle, and then withdraw from him, that he may be hit and killed.”
16 约押围城的时候，知道敌人那里有勇士，便将乌利亚派在那里。
So as Joab watched the siege upon the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers would be fighting.
17 城里的人出来和约押打仗；大卫的仆人中有几个被杀的，赫人乌利亚也死了。
When the men of the city went out and fought against Joab's army, some of the soldiers of David fell, and Uriah the Hittite was also killed there.
18 于是，约押差人去将争战的一切事告诉大卫，
When Joab sent word to David about everything concerning the war,
19 又嘱咐使者说：“你把争战的一切事对王说完了，
he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
20 王若发怒，问你说：‘你们打仗为什么挨近城墙呢？岂不知敌人必从城上射箭吗？
it may happen that the king will become angry, and he will say to you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
21 从前打死耶路·比设儿子亚比米勒的是谁呢？岂不是一个妇人从城上抛下一块上磨石来，打在他身上，他就死在提备斯吗？你们为什么挨近城墙呢？’你就说：‘王的仆人—赫人乌利亚也死了。’”
Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Did not 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 must answer, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'”
22 使者起身，来见大卫，照着约押所吩咐他的话奏告大卫。
So the messenger left and went to David and told him everything that Joab had sent him to say.
23 使者对大卫说：“敌人强过我们，出到郊野与我们打仗，我们追杀他们，直到城门口。
Then the messenger said to David, “The enemy were stronger than we were at first; they came out to us into the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
24 射箭的从城上射王的仆人，射死几个，赫人乌利亚也死了。”
Then their shooters shot at your soldiers from off the wall, and some of the king's servants were killed, and your servant Uriah the Hittite was killed too.”
25 王向使者说：“你告诉约押说：‘不要因这事愁闷，刀剑或吞灭这人或吞灭那人，没有一定的；你只管竭力攻城，将城倾覆。’可以用这话勉励约押。”
Then David said to the messenger, “Say this to Joab, 'Do not let this displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle even stronger against the city, and overthrow it,' and encourage him.”
26 乌利亚的妻听见丈夫乌利亚死了，就为他哀哭。
So when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented deeply for her husband.
27 哀哭的日子过了，大卫差人将她接到宫里，她就作了大卫的妻，给大卫生了一个儿子。但大卫所行的这事，耶和华甚不喜悦。
When her sorrow passed, David sent and took her home to his palace, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But what David had done displeased Yahweh.
