2 Samuel 11:9
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New International Version (©2011)
But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Uriah didn't go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance with the king's palace guard.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master's servants; he did not go down to his house.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But Uriah spent the night sleeping in the alcove of the king's palace in the company of all his master's staff members. He refused to go down to his own home.

NET Bible (©2006)
But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace among his superior's mercenaries. He didn't go home.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

American King James Version
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

American Standard Version
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.

Darby Bible Translation
And Urijah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

English Revised Version
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

Webster's Bible Translation
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

World English Bible
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.

Young's Literal Translation
and Uriah lieth down at the opening of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and hath not gone down unto his house.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:6-13 Giving way to sin hardens the heart, and provokes the departure of the Holy Spirit. Robbing a man of his reason, is worse than robbing him of his money; and drawing him into sin, is worse than drawing him into any wordly trouble whatever.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord,.... The bodyguards, which were placed there to watch the palace in the night season; Uriah first fell into a conversation with these as is highly probable, to whom he was well known, and who might inquire of one and another of their friends in the army; and he being weary, laid himself down among there, and slept:

and went not down to his house; whether the trifling questions David asked him, or the information the guards might give him of his wife being sent for to court; made him suspect something, and so had no inclination to go to this own house; or however so it was ordered by the providence of God, which directed him to act in this manner, that the sin of David and Bathsheba they studied to hide might be discovered.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house—It is customary for servants to sleep in the porch or long gallery; and the guards of the Hebrew king did the same. Whatever his secret suspicions might have been, Uriah's refusal to indulge in the enjoyment of domestic pleasure, and his determination to sleep "at the door of the king's house," arose from a high and honorable sense of military duty and propriety (2Sa 11:11). But, doubtless, the resolution of Uriah was overruled by that Providence which brings good out of evil, and which has recorded this sad episode for the warning of the church.

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David and Bathsheba
…8And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king. 9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. 10And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his house, David said to Uriah, Came you not from your journey? why then did you not go down to your house? …

2 Samuel 11:10 David was told, "Uriah did not go home." So he asked Uriah, "Haven't you just come from a military campaign? Why didn't you go home?"
2 Samuel 11:13 At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.
1 Kings 14:27 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
1 Kings 14:28 Whenever the king went to the LORD's temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.