When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he summoned him and asked, “What’s the matter? Why didn’t you go home last night after being away for so long?”
Parallel translations
- WEB When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
- KJV 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?
- BSB And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
- NKJV So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
- NASB Now when they informed David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
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Quick answer
Told that Uriah did not go home, David presses him to explain. The cover-up is stalling, increasing David's anxiety.
Overview
David's question betrays his frustration that the scheme is failing. Uriah's discipline has thwarted the easy solution David hoped for. The deepening complication shows how sin, once begun, demands ever more effort to conceal and never truly settles the conscience.
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