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1 And it came to pass, after
the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that
David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed
the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at
Jerusalem.
2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide,
that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s
house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was
very beautiful to look upon.
3 And David sent and enquired after the
woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam,
the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers, and took her;
and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her
uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and
told David, and said, I am with child.
6 And David sent to Joab, saying,
Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David
demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war
prospered.
8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy
house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and
there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s
house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
10 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?
11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and
Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 And it came to pass in the
morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of
Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set
ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he
may be smitten, and die.
16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed
the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 And the men of the city went out, and
fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of
David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18 Then Joab sent and told David all the
things concerning the war;
19 And charged the messenger, saying, When
thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
20 And if so be that the king’s 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?
21 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.
22 So the messenger went, and came and
shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
23 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.
24 And the shooters shot from off the wall
upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy
servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
25 Then David said unto the messenger,
Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, 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.
26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that
Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 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.
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