rsv 2Samuel:11:15-27 SEEK
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In the letter he wrote , "
Set Uri '
ah in the forefront of the hardest fighting ,
and then draw back from him ,
that he may be struck down ,
and die ."
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And as Jo '
ab was besieging the city ,
he assigned Uri '
ah to the place where he knew there were valiant men .
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And the men of the city came out and fought with Jo '
ab ;
and some of the servants of David among the people fell .
Uri '
ah the Hittite was slain also .
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Then Jo '
ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting ;
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and he instructed the messenger , "
When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king ,
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then ,
if the king '
s anger rises ,
and if he says to you , `
Why did you go so near the city to fight ?
Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall ?
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Who killed Abim '
elech the son of Jerub '
besheth ?
Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall ,
so that he died at Thebez ?
Why did you go so near the wall ?'
then you shall say , `
Your servant Uri '
ah the Hittite is dead also .'"
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So the messenger went ,
and came and told David all that Jo '
ab had sent him to tell .
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The messenger said to David , "
The men gained an advantage over us ,
and came out against us in the field ;
but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate .
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Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall ;
some of the king '
s servants are dead ;
and your servant Uri '
ah the Hittite is dead also ."
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David said to the messenger , "
Thus shall you say to Jo '
ab , `
Do not let this matter trouble you ,
for the sword devours now one and now another ;
strengthen your attack upon the city ,
and overthrow it .'
And encourage him ."
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When the wife of Uri '
ah heard that Uri '
ah her husband was dead ,
she made lamentation for her husband .
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And when the 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 .