New Revised Standard Version
As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant warriors.

Contemporary English Version
Joab had been carefully watching the city of Rabbah, and he put Uriah in a place where he knew there were some of the enemy's best soldiers.

New American Bible
So while Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the defenders were strong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.

Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.

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2 Samuel 11:21 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.

2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.

2 Samuel 20:9,10 And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him. . . .

1 Samuel 22:17-19 And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord. . . .

1 Kings 2:5,31-34 Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me, what he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. . . .

1 Kings 21:12-14 They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of the people. . . .

2 Kings 10:6 And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.

Proverbs 29:12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.