2Samuel:11

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* It happened in the spring of the year , at the time when kings go out to battle , that David sent Joab and his servants with him , and all Israel ; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah . But David remained at Jerusalem . * Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king 's house . And from the roof he saw a woman bathing , and the woman was very beautiful to behold . * So David sent and inquired about the woman . And someone said , "Is this not Bathsheba , the daughter of Eliam , the wife of Uriah the Hittite ?" * Then David sent messengers , and took her ; and she came to him , and he lay with her , for she was cleansed from her impurity ; and she returned to her house . * And the woman conceived ; so she sent and told David , and said , "I am with child ." * Then David sent to Joab , saying , "Send me Uriah the Hittite ." And Joab sent Uriah to David . * When Uriah had come to him , David asked how Joab was doing , and how the people were doing , and how the war prospered . * And David said to Uriah , "Go down to your house and wash your feet ." So Uriah departed from the king 's house , and a gift of food from the king followed him . * 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 . * 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 ?" * And Uriah said to David , "The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents , and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields . Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink , and to lie with my wife ? As you live , and as your soul lives , I will not do this thing ." * Then David said to Uriah , "Wait here today also , and tomorrow I will let you depart ." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next . * Now when David called him , he ate and drank before him ; and he made him drunk . And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord , but he did not go down to his house . * In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah . * And he wrote in the letter , saying , "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle , and retreat from him , that he may be struck down and die ." * So it was , while Joab besieged the city , that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men . * Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab . And some of the people of the servants of David fell ; and Uriah the Hittite died also . * Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war , * and charged the messenger , saying , "When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king , * if it happens that the king 's wrath rises , and he says to you : "Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought ? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall ? * Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth ? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall , so that he died in Thebez ? Why did you go near the wall ?'--then you shall say , "Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also ."' * So the messenger went , and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him . * And the messenger said to David , "Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field ; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate . * The archers shot from the wall at your servants ; and some of the king 's servants are dead , and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also ." * Then David said to the messenger , "Thus you shall say to Joab : "Do not let this thing displease you , for the sword devours one as well as another . Strengthen your attack against the city , and overthrow it .' So encourage him ." * When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead , she mourned for her husband . * And when her mourning was over , David sent and brought her to his house , and she became his wife and bore him a son . But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD .

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