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not down to his house.
10
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his
house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from
thy
journey? why
then
didst thou not go down
unto thine house?
11
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and
my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into
mine 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.
12
And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let
thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
13
And when David had called
him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his
bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent
it
by the hand
of Uriah.
15
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle,
and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16
And it came to pass, when Joab observed
the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men
were.
17
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 Uriah the Hittite died also.
18
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
19
And charged the messenger,
saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
20
And if so be
that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city
when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
21
Who smote Abimelech the
son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he
died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead
also.
22
So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
23
And
the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the
field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
24
And the shooters shot from off
the wall upon thy servants; and
some
of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead also.
25
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not
this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more
strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
26
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her
husband.
27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she
became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the L
ORD
.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 12
And the L
ORD
sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two
men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
2
The rich
man
had exceeding many flocks and
herds:
3
But the poor
man
had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished
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