BATHSHEBA
2 SAMUEL 11:1-27: It happened in the spring of the year at the time when kings go out to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. They destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful to behold. So David inquired about the woman. And someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
David sent messengers and took her. She came to him and he lay with her for she was cleansed from her impurity. She returned to her house. And the woman conceived. She told David, "I am with child."
David sent for Joab and said, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab was doing and how the soldiers were fighting and how the war was prospering. Then David said to Uriah, "Wait here today and tomorrow I will let you depart."
Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. When David called him, he ate and drank before him and he made him drunk. At evening Uriah went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go to his house.
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. He wrote in the letter: "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retreat from him that he may be struck down and die."
It was while Joab besieged Rabbah that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some of the servants of David fell and Uriah the Hittite died also. Joab sent a messenger to tell David all the things concerning the battle.
The messenger went and told David all that Joab had sent by him. And the messenger said to David, "The archers shot from the walls at your servants and some of the king's servants are dead and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. Once her mourning was over, David brought her to his house and she became his wife and bore him a son. But God was not pleased.
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