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to meete them (for the men were exceedingly 11
ashamed) and the King sayde, Tary at Iericho, 1 And when the yeere was expired in the time
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vntill your beards be growen, then returne. And when Kinges goe forth to battell, Dauid sent Ioab,
when the children of Ammon sawe that they and his seruantes with him, and all Israel, who
stanke in the sight of Dauid, the children of destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged
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Ammon sent and hired the Aramites of the house Rabbah: but Dauid remayned in Ierusalem. And
ofRehob, andtheAramitesofZoba, twentiethou- when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of
sande footemen, and of King Maacah a thousand his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings
men, and of Ish-tob twelue thousande men. And palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman
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when Dauid heard of it, he sent Ioab, and all the
hoste of the strong men. 8 And the children of washing her selfe: and the woman was very
Ammon came out, and put their armie in araye beautifull to looke vpon. 3 And Dauid sent and
at the entring in of the gate: and the Aramites of inquired what woman it was: and one sayde, Is
Zoba, and of Rehob, and of Ish-tob, and of Maacah not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to
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were by themselues in the fielde. 9 When Ioab Vriah the Hittite? Then Dauid sent messengers,
saw that the front of the battel was against him and tooke her away: and she came vnto him and
before and behinde, he chose of all the choyse of he lay with her: (now she was purified from her
Israel, and put them in aray against the Aramites. vncleannes) and she returned vnto her house.
10 And the rest of the people hee deliuered into 5 And the woman conceiued: therefore shee sent
the hande of Abishai his brother, that hee might and tolde Dauid, and sayd, I am with childe.
put them in aray against the children of Ammon. 6 Then Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Vriah
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11 And he sayde, If the Aramites be stronger then the Hittite. And Ioab sent Vriah to Dauid. And
whenVriahcame vnto him, Dauiddemandedhim
I, thou shalt helpe me, and if the children of how Ioab did, and howe the people fared, and
Ammon be too strong for thee, I will come and how the warre prospered. Afterward Dauid said
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succour thee. 12 Be strong and let vs be valiant to Vriah, Go downe to thine house, and wash
for our people, and for the cities of our God, thy feete. So Vriah departed out of the Kings
and let the Lord do that which is good in his palace, and the king sent a present after him.
eyes. 13 Then Ioab, and the people that was with 9 But Vriah slept at the doore of the Kings palace
him, ioyned in battel with the Aramites, who with all the seruants of his lord, and went not
fled before him. 14 And when the children of downe to his house. 10 Then they tolde Dauid,
Ammon sawe that the Aramites fled, they fled saying, Vriah went not downe to his house: and
also before Abishai, and entred into the citie. so Dauid saide vnto Vriah, Commest thou not from
Ioab returned from the children of Ammon, and thy iourney? why didst thou not go downe to
came to Ierusalem. 15 And when the Aramites thine house? 11 Then Vriah answered Dauid, The
sawe that they were smitten before Israel, they Arke and Israel, and Iudah dwell in tents: and my
gathered them together. 16 And Hadarezer sent, lord Ioab and the seruants of my lord abide in the
and brought out the Aramites that were beyond open fields: shall I then go into mine house to
the Riuer: and they came to Helam, and Shobach eate and drinke, and lie with my wife? by thy life,
the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer went and by the life of thy soule, I will not do this thing.
before them. 17 When it was shewed Dauid, then 12 Then Dauid sayd vnto Vriah, Tary yet this day,
he gathered all Israel together, and passed ouer and to morow I will send thee away. So Vriah
Iorden and came to Helam: and the Aramites
set themselues in aray against Dauid, and fought abode in Ierusalem that day, and the morowe.
with him: 18 And the Aramites fled before Israel: 13 Then Dauid called him, and hee did eate and
and Dauid destroyed seuen hundreth charets of drinke before him, and he made him drunke: and
at euen he went out to lie on his couch with
the Aramites, and fourtie thousande horsemen, the seruants of his Lord, but went not downe to
and smote Shobach the captaine of his hoste, his house. 14 And on the morowe Dauid wrote a
who dyed there. 19 And when all the Kings, that letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.
were seruants to Hadarezer, saw that they fell 15 And he wrote thus in the letter, Put ye Vriah
before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and in the forefront of the strength of the battell, and
serued them. and the Aramites feared to helpe recule ye backe from him, that he may be smitten,
the children of Ammon any more. and die. 16 So when Ioab besieged the citie, he
assigned Vriah vnto a place, where he knewe