Discovery Box2 Samuel 11:6-12 
Context11:6 So David sent a message to Joab that said, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David. 11:7 When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and the army were doing and how the campaign was going. 1 11:8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your home and relax.” 2 When Uriah left the palace, the king sent a gift to him. 3 11:9 But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all 4 the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.
11:10 So they informed David, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven’t you gone down to your house?” 11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations 5 with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 6 I will not do this thing!” 11:12 So David said to Uriah, “Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one. 7
1 tn Heb “concerning the peace of Joab and concerning the peace of the people and concerning the peace of the battle.”
2 tn Heb “and wash your feet.”
3 tn Heb “and there went out after him the gift of the king.”
4 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation lacks the word “all.”
5 tn Heb “and lay.”
6 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”
7 tn On the chronology involved here see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 287.
