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But David stayed at Jerusalem. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So David sent and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the woman became pregnant; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am pregnant.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then David sent to Joab, <i>saying</i>, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>state of Joab and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>state of the people and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>state of the war. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and a present from the king went out after him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Uriah lay down at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house.” And David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you out.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>next. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now it happened in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent <i>it</i> by the hand of Uriah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he had written in the letter, saying, “<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Place Uriah in the front line of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there <i>were</i> valiant men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David’s servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Joab sent and told David all the events of the war. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ‘Why did you approach the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall so he died at Thebez? Why did you approach the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him <i>to tell</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants died, and your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing be evil in your sight, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>tear it down’; and <i>so</i> strengthen him.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband had died, so she lamented over her husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then the <i>time of</i> mourning passed by, and David sent and gathered her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Yahweh.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>at the return of the year</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> As in mss and versions; M.T. <i>messengers</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>sought out</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>peace</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>peace</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>peace</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Temporary shelters<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>morrow</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>Give</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>strong</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>were upon</i><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Lit <i>pull</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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