<p class="bodytext">When Uriah&#8217;s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for him.<n id="1" />

and Uriah the Hittite. Altogether there were thirty-seven.p>

<p class="bodytext">So David sent a message to Joab that said, &#8220;Send me Uriah the Hittite.&#8221; So Joab sent Uriah to David.

So David said to Uriah, &#8220;Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back.&#8221; So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one.<n id="1" />

When Uriah came to him, David asked about how Joab and the army were doing and how the campaign was going.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

<p class="bodytext">So they informed David, &#8220;Uriah has not gone down to his house.&#8221; So David said to Uriah, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you just arrived from a journey? Why haven&#8217;t you gone down to your house?&#8221;

So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?&#8221;p>

Then David said to Uriah, &#8220;Go down to your home and relax.&#8221;<n id="1" /> When Uriah left the palace, the king sent a gift to him.<n id="2" />

But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all<n id="1" /> the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.p>

In the letter he wrote: &#8220;Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So as Joab kept watch on the city, he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers<n id="1" /> were.

When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David&#8217;s soldiers<n id="1" /> fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.p>

Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall and some of the king&#8217;s soldiers<n id="1" /> died. Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.&#8221;

So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">Then Nathan went to his home. The <sc>Lordsc> struck the child that Uriah&#8217;s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.<n id="1" />

Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn&#8217;t a woman throw an upper millstone<n id="1" /> down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?&#8217; just say to him, &#8216;Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Why have you shown contempt for the word of the <sc>Lordsc> by doing evil in my<n id="1" /> sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own!<n id="2" /> You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Uriah replied to David, &#8220;The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord&#8217;s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations<n id="1" /> with my wife? As surely as you are alive,<n id="2" /> I will not do this thing!&#8221;