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In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. |
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It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. |
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And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" |
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So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. |
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And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am with child." |
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So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. |
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When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. |
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Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king. |
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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. |
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When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?" |
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Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing." |
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Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next. |
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And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. |
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In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. |
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In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah 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 Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah 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 Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was slain also. |
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Then Joab 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 Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? 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 Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'" |
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So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab 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 Uriah the Hittite is dead also." |
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David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Joab, `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 Uriah heard that Uriah 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. |
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