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1Ki 11:36:
36 I’ll give Shelomoh’s son one tribe to rule so that one of David’s descendants will always rule in my chosen city Yerushalem because it’s associated with my name.
2Sam 11:1-27:
11 The next spring (when kings usually go to war), David sent Yoav (Joab) and his officials and all the Israeli warriors, and they defeated the Amonim and besieged Rabah.
But David stayed in Yerushalem (Jerusalem),[ref] 2 and early one evening he got up from a nap and walked around the palace roof area. From there he saw a woman bathing, and she was very good-looking. 3 David sent a messenger to find out who she was, and was told, “That’s Eliam’s daughter Bat-Sheva (Bathsheba)—Uriyah the Hiti’s wife.” 4 Then he sent messengers to get her, and she came and he slept with her. (She had been purifying herself after the completion of her menstrual period.) Then she returned to her house.
5 After some time, the woman realised that she was pregnant, and so she informed David. 6 David sent to Yoav, “Send Uriyah the Hiti here to me.” So Yoav sent Uriyah to David. 7 When he arrived, David asked him about how Yoav and his men were doing, and how the battle was going, 8 then he told him, “Go to your house and relax.” So Uriyah left the palace and the king sent a gift to be delivered to his house. 9 ⇔But Uriyah didn’t go home—instead he slept at the palace entrance with all the king’s servants, 10 The next day, David was informed that Uriyah didn’t go home to his house, so he asked him, “Didn’t you just get back from a long journey? Why didn’t you go home?”
11 “The sacred chest and the warriors from Yisrael (Israel) and Yehudah (Judah) are living in tents,” Uriyah replied. “And my master, Yoav, and my master’s servants are camping out in the open. So I couldn’t just go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife. By your life and by the life of your spirit, I couldn’t do that.”
12 “Well, stay here today also,” David told him, “and tomorrow I’ll send you back.” So Uriyah stayed in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) that day and the following day, 13 and David summoned him over, and they ate and drank together, and David got him drunk. But even then, Uriyah didn’t go back to his house, but when he left in the evening he went back to sleep in the dorm with his master’s servants.
14 The next morning, David wrote a note to Yoav and told Uriyah to deliver it. 15 He’d written, “Place Uriyah in the front where the fighting is strongest, then fall back from behind him so that he’ll be struck and die.” 16 So as Yoav was surrounding the city, he placed Uriyah where he knew the strongest enemy warriors would be fighting. 17 The warriors from the city came out and fought against Yoav’s men, and some of David’s servants were killed and so was Uriyah.
18 Then Yoav sent a messenger to David to give him a full account of the battle. 19 He told the messenger, “Once you’ve finished telling all the details of the battle to the king, 20 if he gets angry and asks, ‘Why did you all go so close in to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they’d shoot down from the wall? 21 Wasn’t Yerubeshet’s son Avimelek killed by a woman in Tevets when she threw a millstone down from the wall?[ref] Why did you approach the wall?’ Then you should say, ‘Your servant Uriyah the Hiti is also dead.’ ”
22 So the messenger left and went and told David everything that Yoav had told him, 23 saying, “Their men gained ground and came out against us in the countryside, but we forced them back to their city gate. 24 Then their archers were shooting at your men from the top of the wall and some of your men were killed, including your servant Uriyah the Hiti.”
25 David sent the messenger back to encourage Yoav, “Don’t let yourself be upset by what happened because no one knows who might die in a battle. Reinforce your battle against the city and tear it down.”
26 When Uriyah’s wife Bat-Sheva (Bathsheba) heard that her husband had been killed, she mourned for him. 27 When her time of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace. She became a wife to him and bore a son for him, but Yahweh was unhappy about what David had done.
2Ch 13:3-21:
3 Aviyah launched the attack with four-hundred thousand strong warriors, and Yarov’am drew up in formation against him with eight-hundred thousand strong warriors in his army.
4 Aviyah stood on the top of Mt. Tsemarayim in the Efrayim (Ephraim) hill-country and shouted, “Yarov’am and all of Yisrael (Israel), listen to me. 5 Don’t you all understand that Yisrael’s god Yahweh made a formal agreement that the kingdom of Yisrael was given forever to David and his descendants? 6 But Nevat’s son Yarov’am, who was a servant of David’s son Shelomoh (Solomon), took action and rebelled against his master, 7 and a bunch of wicked good-for-nothings gathered around Yarov’am and created a force against Shelomoh’s son, Rehav’am (Rehoboam), when Rehav’am was still an inexperienced, young man and couldn’t stand up to them. 8 So now you Israelis are saying that you’ll stand against the kingdom that Yahweh established through David’s descendants. There are certainly many of you, and you have the gold calves that Yarov’am made as gods for you. 9 Didn’t you people drive out the Levites, as well as Yahweh’s priests who were Aharon’s (Aaron’s) descendants? Then you appointed for yourselves ‘priests’ like they have in other countries, so that anyone who comes to consecrate himself by bringing a young bull from the herd and seven rams can become a ‘priest’ of your non-gods.
10 “But as for us, Yahweh is our god and we haven’t abandoned him. Our priests who minister to Yahweh are Aharon’s descendants, and the Levites assist them. 11 Every morning and every evening, they sacrifice burnt offerings to Yahweh, and spiced incense. There’s sacred bread on the display table, and the lamps in the gold lampstand give light every evening because we’re following our god Yahweh’s instructions, but you people have abandoned him. 12 So listen! God is guiding us, and his priests will blast their trumpets to signal battle against you people. Listen, you Israelis: don’t fight against Yahweh, your ancestors’ god, because you won’t succeed.”
13 But meanwhile, Yarov’am had sent some men around to ambush them from behind, so they were both in front of the army from Yehudah (Judah) and in ambush behind them.
14 When the warriors from Yehudah turned, wow, they realised they were being attacked from in front and from behind. They called out to Yahweh for help while the priests blew their trumpets. 15 Then the men from Yehudah shouted a loud battle cry, and God defeated Yarov’am and all of Yisrael in front of Aviyah and Yehudah. 16 Yisrael’s soldiers fled away from Yehudah’s army, and God enabled Yehudah to defeat them. 17 Aviyah and his men thrashed them badly, and some five-hundred thousand of their chosen warriors were killed. 18 So the Israelis were subdued at that time, and the people from Yehudah were victorious because they trusted in Yahweh, their ancestors’ god.
19 Aviyah chased after Yarov’am and they captured from Yisrael (Israel) the cities of Beyt-El (Bethel), Yeshanah, and Efron, and their surrounding villages. 20 Yarov’am never regained military strength during Aviyah’s reign, and after a time Yahweh struck him with sickness and he died.
21 Meanwhile, Aviyah became more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
