就打发使者去见以东王，说，求你容我从你的地经过。以东王却不应允。又照样打发使者去见摩押王，他也不允准。以色列人就住在加低斯。
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
耶和华以色列的神在他百姓以色列面前赶出亚摩利人，你竟要得他们的地吗。
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
你的神基抹所赐你的地你不是得为业吗。耶和华我们的神在我们面前所赶出的人，我们就得他的地。
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
大卫差人去，将妇人接来。那时她的月经才得洁净。她来了，大卫与她同房，她就回家去了。
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
大卫差人到约押那里，说，你打发赫人乌利亚到我这里来。约押就打发乌利亚去见大卫。
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
乌利亚来了，大卫问约押好，也问兵好，又问争战的事怎样。
And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
有人告诉大卫说，乌利亚没有回家去。大卫就问乌利亚说，你从远路上来，为什么不回家去呢。
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
大卫吩咐乌利亚说，你今日仍住在这里，明日我打发你去。于是乌利亚那日和次日住在耶路撒冷。
And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
次日早晨，大卫写信与约押，交乌利亚随手带去。
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
城里的人出来和约押打仗。大卫的仆人中有几个被杀的，赫人乌利亚也死了。
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.