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They destroyed the Ammonite army and surrounded the capital city of Rabbah, but David stayed in Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.2-2Sam.11.4" class="v10_11_2">2-4</span>Late one afternoon, David got up from a nap and was walking around on the flat roof of his palace. A beautiful young woman was down below in her courtyard, bathing as her religion required.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.2-2Sam.11.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> David happened to see her, and he sent one of his servants to find out who she was.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_2">The servant came back and told David, “Her name is Bathsheba. She is the daughter of Eliam, and she is the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_2">David sent some messengers to bring her to his palace. She came to him, and he slept with her. Then she returned home. </span><span class="v10_11_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.5" class="v10_11_5">5</span>But later, when she found out that she was going to have a baby, she sent someone to David with this message: “I'm pregnant!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.6" class="v10_11_6">6</span>David sent a message to Joab: “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_6">Joab sent Uriah </span><span class="v10_11_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.7" class="v10_11_7">7</span>to David's palace, and David asked him, “Is Joab well? How is the army doing? And how about the war?” </span><span class="v10_11_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.8" class="v10_11_8">8</span>Then David told Uriah, “Go home and clean up.”<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Uriah left the king's palace, and David had dinner sent to Uriah's house. </span><span class="v10_11_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.9" class="v10_11_9">9</span>But Uriah didn't go home. Instead, he slept outside the entrance to the royal palace, where the king's guards slept.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.10" class="v10_11_10">10</span>Someone told David that Uriah had not gone home. So the next morning David asked him, “Why didn't you go home? Haven't you been away for a long time?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.11" class="v10_11_11">11</span>Uriah answered, “The sacred chest and the armies of Israel and Judah are camping out somewhere in the fields<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> with our commander Joab and his officers and troops. Do you really think I would go home to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? I swear by your life that I would not!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.12" class="v10_11_12">12</span>Then David said, “Stay here in Jerusalem today, and I will send you back tomorrow.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_12">Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day. Then the next day, </span><span class="v10_11_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.13" class="v10_11_13">13</span>David invited him for dinner. Uriah ate with David, who gave him so much to drink that he got drunk. But Uriah still did not go home. He went out and slept on his mat near the palace guards. </span><span class="v10_11_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.14" class="v10_11_14">14</span>Early the next morning, David wrote a letter and told Uriah to deliver it to Joab. </span><span class="v10_11_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.15" class="v10_11_15">15</span>The letter said: “Put Uriah on the front line where the fighting is the worst. Then pull the troops back from him, so that he will be wounded and die.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.16" class="v10_11_16">16</span>Joab had been carefully watching the city of Rabbah, and he put Uriah in a place where he knew there were some of the enemy's best soldiers. </span><span class="v10_11_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.17" class="v10_11_17">17</span>When the men of the city came out, they fought and killed some of David's soldiers—Uriah the Hittite was one of them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.18" class="v10_11_18">18</span>Joab sent a messenger to tell David everything that was happening in the war. </span><span class="v10_11_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.19" class="v10_11_19">19</span>He gave the messenger these orders:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v10_11_19">When you finish telling the king everything that has happened, </span><span class="v10_11_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.20" class="v10_11_20">20</span>he may get angry and ask, “Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? </span><span class="v10_11_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.21" class="v10_11_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Don't you know how Abimelech the son of Gideon<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.21!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> was killed at Thebez? Didn't a woman kill him by dropping a large rock from the top of the city wall? Why did you go so close to the city walls?”</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v10_11_21">Then tell him, “One of your soldiers who was killed was Uriah the Hittite.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.22" class="v10_11_22">22</span>The messenger went to David and reported everything Joab had told him. </span><span class="v10_11_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.23" class="v10_11_23">23</span>He added, “The enemy chased us from the wall and out into the open fields. But we pushed them back as far as the city gate. </span><span class="v10_11_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.24" class="v10_11_24">24</span>Then they shot arrows at us from the top of the wall. Some of your soldiers were killed, and one of them was Uriah the Hittite.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.25" class="v10_11_25">25</span>David replied, “Tell Joab to cheer up and not to be upset about what happened. You never know who will be killed in a war. Tell him to strengthen his attack against the city and break through its walls.”<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.11.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.26" class="v10_11_26">26</span>When Bathsheba heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. </span><span class="v10_11_27"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.11.27" class="v10_11_27">27</span>Then after the time for mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her to the palace. She became David's wife, and they had a son.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Message for David</h3><p class="par"><span class="v10_11_27">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> was angry because of what David had done,</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">when … war: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “when the messengers had gone to Ammon” (see 10.2) or “the time when the kings had gone to war” (see 10.6-8).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.2-4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">as … required: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This bathing was often a requirement for worshiping God.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and clean up: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “and sleep with your wife.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">somewhere in the fields: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “at Succoth.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.21 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Gideon: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has Jerubbesheth, which stands for “Jerubbaal,” another name for Gideon. See Judges 6.32 and the note on “bosheth” at 2.8 (“besheth” means the same as “bosheth”).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">break … walls: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “destroy it.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. 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