1.年初，王出战的时节，达味派约押和他的官员，并以色列的众人与他同去，他们就毁坏了亚扪人，并围攻拉巴。但达味仍住在耶路撒冷。At the turn of the year, the season when kings go out [to battle], David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him, and they devastated Ammon and besieged Rabbah; David remained in Jerusalem.
2.傍晚时分，大卫王从床上起来，在王宫的平顶上行走，于是从平顶上看见一个妇人正在洗澡。那妇人极其美丽，Late one afternoon, David rose from his couch and strolled on the roof of the royal palace; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,
3.大卫派人去打听那女人，回报说：“她是以连的女儿，乃比筛的妻子，是赫人乌利亚的妻子。”and David sent someone to make inquiries about the woman. He reported, “She is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam [and] wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
4.大卫派人去接她，她来到他那里，他与她同寝——她刚刚洁净自己，脱离不洁——然后回家。David sent messengers to fetch her; she came to him and he lay with her—she had just purified herself after her period—and she went back home.
5.那女人怀了孕，就派人告诉大卫说，我怀了孕。The woman conceived, and she sent word to David, “I am pregnant.”
6.于是大卫派人去叫约押说：“派希特人乌利亚到我这里来。”约押就派乌利亚去见大卫。Thereupon David sent a message to Joab, “Send Uriah the Hittite to me”; and Joab sent Uriah to David.
7.乌利亚来到他面前，大卫问他约押和军队的情况以及战争的进展。When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab and the troops were faring and how the war was going.
8.大卫对乌利亚说：“你回家去，洗洗脚。” 乌利亚从王宫出来的时候，有人送来王赐的食物跟随他。Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and bathe your feet.” When Uriah left the royal palace, a present from the king followed him.
9.但乌利亚却与他主人其他臣仆一起在王宫门口睡觉，没有下到自己的家里。But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace, along with the other officers of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10.大卫被告知乌利亚没有回到家中时，他对乌利亚说，你刚刚从远行回来，为什么不回家去呢！When David was told that Uriah had not gone down to his house, he said to Uriah, “You just came from a journey; why didn’t you go down to your house?”
11.乌利亚对大卫说，约柜和以色列人与犹大人都在 Succoth 的营中，我的主约押和王的众仆人都在田野扎营，我怎么能回家吃喝与妻子同寝呢？我指着你的生命和你的灵魂发誓，我绝不会这样做！Uriah answered David, “The Ark and Israel and Judah are located at Succoth, and my master Joab and Your Majesty’s men are camped in the open; how can I go home and eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As you live, by your very life, I will not do this!”
12.大卫对乌利亚说：“今天你也留在这里，明天我会打发你回去。” 于是乌利亚那天留在耶路撒冷。第二天，David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you off.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. The next day,
13.大卫召了他来，他在大卫面前吃喝，直到醉了，但到了晚上，他还是去睡在与他主人的官员同一地方，不回自己家去。David summoned him, and he ate and drank with him until he got him drunk; but in the evening, [Uriah] went out to sleep in the same place, with his lord’s officers; he did not go down to his home.
14.大卫早晨写信给约押，交给乌利亚带去。In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, which he sent with Uriah.
15.他在信中这样写道：“将乌利亚放在战斗最激烈的最前线，然后退后，让他被杀。”He wrote in the letter as follows: “Place Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest; then fall back so that he may be killed.”
16.约押围攻城市的时候，他派乌利亚站在他知道那里有勇士的地方。So when Joab was besieging the city, he stationed Uriah at the point where he knew that there were able warriors.
17.城里的人出来攻击约押，有几位大卫的军官和士兵中有人被杀，赫人乌利亚也在死者之中。Men from the city sallied out and attacked Joab, and some of David’s officers among the troops fell; Uriah the Hittite was among those who died.
18.约押将战事的全部情况报告了大卫。Joab sent a full report of the battle to David.
19.他吩咐使者说：“你把战事的所有情况都报告给王以后，He instructed the messenger as follows: “When you finish reporting to the king all about the battle,
20.王可能会发怒，对你说，你为什么靠近城来攻打它？难道你不知道他们会从城墙上射箭吗？the king may get angry and say to you, ‘Why did you come so close to the city to attack it? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
21.击败耶鲁巴力之子亚比米勒的是谁？难道不是一个女人从提备斯城墙上扔下一个上磨石将他砸死吗？你们为什么靠近城墙呢？然后说：你们的仆人赫人乌利亚也在被杀的人中。Who struck down Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? for -baal, see note at 2 Sam. 4.4. For the event at Thebez described here, see Judg. 9.35ff. Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall at Thebez, from which he died? Why did you come so close to the wall?’ Then say: ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite was among those killed.’”
22.使者起身前去，将约押所托他说的一切话告诉了大卫。The messenger set out; he came and told David all that Joab had sent him to say.
23.使者对大卫说，他们的兵起初强盛，胜过我们，冲出城来攻击我们，我们将他们击退，直到城门口。The messenger said to David, “First their men prevailed against us and sallied out against us into the open; then we drove them back up to the entrance to the gate.
24.但弓箭手从城墙上射箭，击中了你的仆人，有些人死亡，你的仆人赫人乌利亚也死亡。But the archers shot at your men from the wall and some of Your Majesty’s men fell; your servant Uriah the Hittite also fell.”
25.大卫对使者说：“你去告诉约押，不要为这事难过，刀剑总是不分彼此的。你们要攻取那城，毁灭了它。”又对使者说：“你要勉励约押。”Whereupon David said to the messenger, “Give Joab this message: ‘Do not be distressed about the matter. The sword always takes its toll. Press your attack on the city and destroy it!’ Encourage him!”
26.乌利亚的妻子听见她丈夫乌利亚死了，就为丈夫举哀。When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she lamented over her husband.
27.哀悼期一过，大卫就派人把她接进宫来，她就成了他的妻子，又给他生了一个儿子。 神却不喜悦大卫所做的事，After the period of mourning was over, David sent and had her brought into his palace; she became his wife and she bore him a son.But GOD was displeased with what David had done,