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But David remained at Jerusalem.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, “This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8271a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> 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 such a thing.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and 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.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">David Has Uriah Killed</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant warriors. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>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 killed as well. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>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? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbaal?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8281b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on 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 too.’”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>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.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; press your attack on the city, and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son.</span></p><h3><span class="text">Nathan Condemns David</span></h3><p><span class="text">But the thing that David had done displeased the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, </span> </p><A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 11:11">2 Samuel 11:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>at Succoth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 11:21">2 Samuel 11:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Judg 7.1: Heb <i>Jerubbesheth</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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