2 Samuel 11:20

2 Samuel chapter 11 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

Context

v.19and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,

v.20This passage

v.21who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.