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The Second Book of Samuel 11

11 And it happened, at the return of the year, at the time of the going out of kings, and David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon, and they laid siege against Rabbah. But David lived in Jerusalem.

2 And it happened, at the time of the evening, and David got up from his bed, and he walked about on the roof of the house of the king, and he saw from the roof a woman bathing. And the woman was very good of appearance. 3 And David sent, and he inquired about the woman. And he said, “Is that not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 And David sent messengers, and he took her. And she came to him, and he laid with her. (And she was keeping herself sanctified from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house. 5 Αnd the woman became pregnant, and she sent, and she informed David, and she said, “I am pregnant.”

6 And David sent to Joab, “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 And Uriah came to him. And David asked for the welfare of Joab and for the welfare of the people and for the welfare of the war. 8 And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out from the house of the king, and a present from the king went out after him. 9 And Uriah lay down at the opening of the house of the king with all the servants of his lord. And he did not go down to his house.

10 And they informed David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house.” And David said to Uriah, “Are you not coming from a road? Why did you not go down to your house?”

11 And Uriah said to David, “The Box and Israel and Judah are living in tents, and my lord, Joab, and the servants of my lord are encamped on the face of the field. But I, will I go to my house to eat and to drink and to lay with my wife? By your life and by the life of your spirit, I will not do this thing!”

12 And David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you.” And Uriah stayed in Jerusalem on that day and from the following day. 13 And David called to him, and he ate to his face, and he drank, and he made him drunk. And he went out in the evening to lie down in his bed with the servants of his lord, but to his house, he did not go down.

14 And it happened in the morning, and David wrote a scroll to Joab. And he sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the scroll, saying, “Give Uriah to the front of the face of the strongest battle, and turn them back from behind him so that he will be struck and die.”

16 And it happened, when Joab kept watch over the city, and he gave Uriah to the place where he knew that men of military prowess were there. 17 And the men of the city went out, and they fought Joab, and some of the people from the servants of David fell. And also Uriah the Hittite died.

18 And Joab sent, and he informed David every word of the war. 19 And he commanded the messenger, saying, “As you are finishing every word of the war by speaking to the king, 20 it will be, if the heat of the king rises, and he says to you, ‘Why did you draw near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Did not a woman throw down on him an upper millstone from the wall, and he died in Thebez? Why did you draw near to the wall?’ And you will say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’ ”

22 And the messenger went, and he came, and he told David everything that Joab had sent him to say. 23 And the messenger said to David that the men prevailed against us, and they came out against us to the field. But we were against them up to the opening of the gate. 24 And the people who were shooting shot to your servants from the wall and some from the servants of the king died—and also your servant Uriah the Hittite died.”

25 And David said to the messenger, “Thus, you will say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter be grievous in your eyes, for like that one and like this one the sword devours. Strengthen your war against the city and tear it down.’ And strengthen him.”

26 And the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband died. And she lamented for her husband. 27 And the mourning period passed, and David sent, and he gathered her to his house, and she became a wife to him, and she bore a son for him. But the thing that David had done was grievous in the eyes of Yahweh.

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