11:1 In
the
spring
of
the
year,
the
time
when
kings
go
out
to
battle,
David
sent
Joab,
and
his
servants
with
him,
and
all
Israel.
And
they
ravaged
the
Ammonites
and
besieged
Rabbah.
But
David
remained
at
Jerusalem.
11:2 It
happened,
late
one
afternoon,
when
David
arose
from
his
couch
and
was
walking
on
the
roof
of
the
king's
house,
that
he
saw
from
the
roof
a
woman
bathing;
and
the
woman
was
very
beautiful.
11:3 And
David
sent
and
inquired
about
the
woman.
And
one
said,
"Is
not
this
Bathsheba,
the
daughter
of
Eliam,
the
wife
of
Uriah
the
Hittite"
11:4 So
David
sent
messengers
and
took
her,
and
she
came
to
him,
and
he
lay
with
her.
(Now
she
had
been
purifying
herself
from
her
uncleanness.)
Then
she
returned
to
her
house.
11:5 And
the
woman
conceived,
and
she
sent
and
told
David,
"I
am
pregnant."
11:6 So
David
sent
word
to
Joab,
"Send
me
Uriah
the
Hittite."
And
Joab
sent
Uriah
to
David.
11:7 When
Uriah
came
to
him,
David
asked
how
Joab
was
doing
and
how
the
people
were
doing
and
how
the
war
was
going.
11:8 Then
David
said
to
Uriah,
"Go
down
to
your
house
and
wash
your
feet."
And
Uriah
went
out
of
the
king's
house,
and
there
followed
him
a
present
from
the
king.
11:9 But
Uriah
slept
at
the
door
of
the
king's
house
with
all
the
servants
of
his
lord,
and
did
not
go
down
to
his
house.
11:10 When
they
told
David,
"Uriah
did
not
go
down
to
his
house,"
David
said
to
Uriah,
"Have
you
not
come
from
a
journey
Why
did
you
not
go
down
to
your
house"
11:11 Uriah
said
to
David,
"The
ark
and
Israel
and
Judah
dwell
in
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
As
you
live,
and
as
your
soul
lives,
I
will
not
do
this
thing."
11:12 Then
David
said
to
Uriah,
"Remain
here
today
also,
and
tomorrow
I
will
send
you
back."
So
Uriah
remained
in
Jerusalem
that
day
and
the
next.
11:13 And
David
invited
him,
and
he
ate
in
his
presence
and
drank,
so
that
he
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.
11:14 In
the
morning
David
wrote
a
letter
to
Joab
and
sent
it
by
the
hand
of
Uriah.
11:15 In
the
letter
he
wrote,
"Set
Uriah
in
the
forefront
of
the
hardest
fighting,
and
then
draw
back
from
him,
that
he
may
be
struck
down,
and
die."
11:16 And
as
Joab
was
besieging
the
city,
he
assigned
Uriah
to
the
place
where
he
knew
there
were
valiant
men.
11:17 And
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
also
died.
11:18 Then
Joab
sent
and
told
David
all
the
news
about
the
fighting.
11:19 And
he
instructed
the
messenger,
"When
you
have
finished
telling
all
the
news
about
the
fighting
to
the
king,
11:20 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
11:21 Who
killed
Abimelech
the
son
of
Jerubbesheth
Did
not
a
woman
cast
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
also.'"
11:22 So
the
messenger
went
and
came
and
told
David
all
that
Joab
had
sent
him
to
tell.
11:23 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.
11:24 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."
11:25 David
said
to
the
messenger,
"Thus
shall
you
say
to
Joab,
'Do
not
let
this
matter
trouble
you,
for
the
sword
devours
now
one
and
now
another.
Strengthen
your
attack
against
the
city
and
overthrow
it.'
And
encourage
him."
11:26 When
the
wife
of
Uriah
heard
that
Uriah
her
husband
was
dead,
she
lamented
over
her
husband.
11:27 And
when
the
mourning
was
over,
David
sent
and
brought
her
to
his
house,
and
she
became
his
wife
and
bore
him
a
son.
But
the
thing
that
David
had
done
displeased
the
LORD.