Bible Cross References
Naboth is stoned
2 Samuel 11:14-24
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The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah.
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He wrote: "Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed."
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So while Joab was besieging the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong.
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The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.
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Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle,
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and he instructed the messenger, "After you have told the king all about the battle,
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he may get angry and ask you, 'Why did you go so near the city to fight them? Didn't you realize that they would shoot arrows from the walls?
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Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?' If the king asks you this, tell him, 'Your officer Uriah was also killed.' "
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So the messenger went to David and told him what Joab had commanded him to say.
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He said, "Our enemies were stronger than we were and came out of the city to fight us in the open, but we drove them back to the city gate.
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Then they shot arrows at us from the wall, and some of Your Majesty's officers were killed; your officer Uriah was also killed."
Ecclesiastes 5:8
Don't be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by someone higher, and both are protected by still higher officials.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
But this is nonsense. Look at what happens in the world: sometimes the righteous get the punishment of the wicked, and the wicked get the reward of the righteous. I say it is useless.