2 Samuel 11:11-12
11Uriah 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 go to bed with ▼▼tn Heb “lie with.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakav) “to lie down” can be a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.
my wife? As surely as you are alive, ▼▼tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”
I will not do this thing!” 12So 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. ▼▼tn On the chronology involved here see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 287.
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