strkjv 2Samuel:11:2-27 SEEK
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And it came to pass in an eveningtide #
H6256 ,
that David arose from off his bed ,
and walked upon the roof of the kings house :
and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself ;
and the woman was very beautiful to look upon mar #
eh #.
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And David sent and enquired after the woman .
And one said ,
Is not this Bathsheba Bath-Sheba #,
the daughter of Eliam #
Eliy #
am #,
the wife of Uriah the Hittite ?
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And David sent messengers mal #
ak #,
and took her ;
and she came in unto him ,
and he lay with her ;
for she was purified from her uncleanness tum #
ah #:
and she returned unto her house .
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And the woman conceived ,
and sent and told David ,
and said ,
I am with child .
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And David sent to Joab Yow #
ab #,
saying ,
Send me Uriah the Hittite .
And Joab sent Uriah to David .
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And when Uriah was come unto him ,
David demanded of him how Joab did ,
and how the people did ,
and how the war prospered .
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And David said to Uriah ,
Go down to thy house ,
and wash thy feet .
And Uriah departed out of the kings house ,
and there followed him a mess of meat from the king .
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But Uriah slept at the door of the kings house with all the servants of his lord ,
and went not down to his house .
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And when they had told David ,
saying ,
Uriah went not down unto his house ,
David said unto Uriah ,
Camest thou not from thy journey ?
why then didst thou not go down unto thine house ?
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And Uriah said unto David ,
The ark ,
and Israel Yisra #
el #,
and Judah ,
abide in tents ;
and my lord Joab Yow #
ab #,
and the servants of my lord ,
are encamped in the open fields ;
shall I then go into mine house ,
to eat and to drink ,
and to lie with my wife ?
as thou livest ,
and as thy soul liveth ,
I will not do this thing .
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And David said to Uriah ,
Tarry here to day also ,
and to morrow I will let thee depart .
So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day ,
and the morrow .
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And when David had called him ,
he did eat and drink before him ;
and he made him drunk :
and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord ,
but went not down to his house .
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And it came to pass in the morning ,
that David wrote a letter to Joab Yow #
ab #,
and sent it by the hand of Uriah .
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And he wrote in the letter ,
saying ,
Set ye Uriah in the forefront paniym #
of the hottest battle ,
and retire ye from him ,
that he may be smitten ,
and die .
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And it came to pass ,
when Joab observed the city ,
that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were .
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And the men of the city went out ,
and fought with Joab Yow #
ab #:
and there fell some of the people of the servants of David ;
and Uriah the Hittite died also .
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Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war ;
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And charged the messenger mal #
ak #,
saying ,
When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king ,
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And if so be that the kings 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 ?
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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth ?
did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall ,
that he died in Thebez ?
why went ye nigh the wall ?
then say thou ,
Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also .
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So the messenger went ,
and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for .
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And the messenger said unto David ,
Surely the men prevailed against us ,
and came out unto us into the field ,
and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate sha #
ar #.
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And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants ;
and some of the kings servants be dead ,
and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also .
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Then David said unto the messenger mal #
ak #,
Thus shalt thou say unto Joab Yow #
ab #,
Let not this thing displease thee ,
for the sword devoureth one as well as another :
make thy battle more strong against the city ,
and overthrow it :
and encourage thou him .
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And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead ,
she mourned for her husband ba #
al #.
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And when the mourning was past ,
David sent and fetched her to his house ,
and she became his wife ,
and bare him a son .
But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD .