2 Samuel 11:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

dan jikalau raja menjadi geram dan berkata kepadamu: Mengapa kamu demikian dekat ke kota itu untuk berperang? Tidakkah kamu tahu, bahwa orang akan memanah dari atas tembok?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
dan jikalau raja menjadi geram dan berkata kepadamu: Mengapa kamu demikian dekat ke kota itu untuk berperang? Tidakkah kamu tahu, bahwa orang akan memanah dari atas tembok?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
jikalau kiranya pada masa itu terbitlah murka baginda akan dikau, serta titahnya kepadamu: Mengapa kamu mengahampiri negeri itu dekat begitu akan berperang? Tiadakah kamu ketahui bahwa tak dapat tiada orang memanah dari atas pagar tembok?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ On the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Urias. ¹⁵ And he wrote thus in the letter: Put ye Urias in the forefront of the sharper battaile, and come ye backe from him, that he maye be smytten, and dye. ¹⁶ So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Urias vnto a place where he wist that strong men were. ¹⁷ And the men of the citie came out, and fought with Ioab: And there were certayne ouerthrowen of the people of the seruauntes of Dauid: & Urias the Hethite dyed also. ¹⁸ Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the thinges concerning the warre: ¹⁹ And charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast made an ende of telling the matters of the warre vnto the king: ²⁰ If the kinges anger aryse, and he say vnto thee, wherfore approched ye so nye vnto the citie when ye did fight? wyst ye not that they would hurle and shoote from the wall? ²¹ Who smote Abimelech sonne of Ierubesheth? Did not a woman cast a peece of a mylstone vpon him from of the wall, and he dyed in Thebes? why went ye nye the wall? Then say thou: Thy seruaunt Urias the Hethite is dead also. ²² So the messenger went, & came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for. ²³ And the messenger saide vnto Dauid: The men preuailed against vs, & came out vnto vs into the fielde, & we pursued them, euen vnto the entring of the gate:

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Cross-References

Luke 3:35
Which was ye sonne of Saruch, which was the sonne of Ragau, whiche was the sonne of Phaleg, which was ye sonne of Heber, which was the sonne of Sala:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if so be that the king's wrath arise,.... Which might be seen in his countenance, or expressed in his words:

and he say, wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? as to expose the king's troops to the enemy on the wall, who by stones or darts greatly annoyed them, or sallied out on them, and killed many of them:

knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? they must have known that, and therefore should have kept out of the reach of their shot.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 11:20. If - the king's wrath arise — It is likely that Joab had by some indiscretion suffered loss about this time; and he contrived to get rid of the odium by connecting the transaction with the death of Uriah, which he knew would be so pleasing to the king.