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David and Bathsheba
And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they laid waste the [land of the] children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David abode at Jerusalem.
And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they laid waste the [land of the] children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David abode at Jerusalem.
And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.
and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?
He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house.
Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home.
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m pregnant.”
And David sent to Joab [saying], Send me Urijah the Hittite. And Joab sent Urijah to David.
Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
And when Urijah had come to him, David asked how Joab prospered, and how the people prospered, and how the war prospered.
When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the army were getting along and how the war was progressing.
And David said to Urijah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Urijah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him presents from the king.
And Urijah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
But Uriah didn’t go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.
And they had told David saying, Urijah did not go down to his house; and David said to Urijah, Art thou not come from a journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he summoned him and asked, “What’s the matter? Why didn’t you go home last night after being away for so long?”
And Urijah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [As] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
And David said to Urijah, Abide here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. And Urijah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow.
“Well, stay here today,” David told him, “and tomorrow you may return to the army.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.
Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn’t get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.
David Arranges Uriah's Death
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by Urijah.
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by Urijah.
David Arranges for Uriah’s Death
So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver.
And he wrote in the letter saying, Set Urijah in the front of the thickest fight, and withdraw from him, that he may be smitten and die.
The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.”
And it came to pass as Joab watched the city, that he assigned Urijah to a place where he knew that the valiant men were.
So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting.
And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David; and Urijah the Hittite died also.
And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.
Then Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war;
Then Joab sent a battle report to David.
and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast ended telling the matters of the war to the king,
He told his messenger, “Report all the news of the battle to the king.
and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say to thee, Why did ye go so near to the city to fight? did ye not know that they would shoot from the wall?
But he might get angry and ask, ‘Why did the troops go so close to the city? Didn’t they know there would be shooting from the walls?
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast the upper stone of a handmill from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why did ye go near the wall? -- then say thou, Thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.
And the messenger went; and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.
So the messenger went to Jerusalem and gave a complete report to David.
And the messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out against us into the field, and we were upon them as far as the entrance of the gate.
“The enemy came out against us in the open fields,” he said. “And as we chased them back to the city gate,
And the shooters shot from upon the wall against thy servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.
the archers on the wall shot arrows at us. Some of the king’s men were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.”
Then David said to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devours one as well as another: make thy battle strong against the city, and overthrow it; -- and encourage him.
“Well, tell Joab not to be discouraged,” David said. “The sword devours this one today and that one tomorrow! Fight harder next time, and conquer the city!”
David Marries Bathsheba
And the wife of Urijah heard that Urijah her husband was dead, and she mourned for her husband.
And the wife of Urijah heard that Urijah her husband was dead, and she mourned for her husband.
When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
When the period of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace, and she became one of his wives. Then she gave birth to a son. But the LORD was displeased with what David had done.