◄ 2 Samuel 11:9 ►
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Good News Translation
But Uriah did not go home; instead he slept at the palace gate with the king's guards.

New Revised Standard Version
But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

Contemporary English Version
But Uriah didn't go home. Instead, he slept outside the entrance to the royal palace, where the king's guards slept.

New American Bible
But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with the other officers of his lord, and did not go down to his own house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.

Job 5:12-14 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: . . .

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

Context
David and Bathsheba
…8And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And Urias went out from the king's house, and there went out after him a mess of meat from the king. 9But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.10And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?…
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:10
And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?

2 Samuel 11:13
And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.

1 Kings 14:27
And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:28
And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

2 Samuel 11:8
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