2 Samuel 11 And it comes to pass, at the revolution of the year--at the time of the going out of the messengers--that David sends Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the Bene-Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah. And David is dwelling in Jerusalem,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it comes to pass, at the revolution of the year--at the time of the going out of the messengers--that David sends Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the Bene-Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah. And David is dwelling in Jerusalem, ² and it comes to pass, at evening-time, that David rises from off his couch, and walks up and down on the roof of the king's house, and sees from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman [is] of very good appearance, ³ and David sends and inquires about the woman, and said, `Is not this Bath-Sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?. ⁴ And David sends messengers, and takes her, and she comes unto him, and he lies with her--and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness--and she turns back unto her house;" ⁵ and the woman conceives, and sends, and declares to David, and said, `I [am] conceiving.. ⁶ And David sends unto Joab, `Send unto me Uriah the Hittite,' and Joab sends Uriah unto David;" ⁷ and Uriah comes unto him, and David asks of the prosperity of Joab, and of the prosperity of the people, and of the prosperity of the war. ⁸ And David said to Uriah, `Go down to your house, and wash your feet;' and Uriah goes out of the king's house, and there goes out after him a gift from the king, ⁹ and Uriah lies down at the opening of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and has not gone down unto his house. ¹⁰ And they declare to David, saying, `Uriah has not gone down unto his house;' and David said unto Uriah, `Have you not come from a journey? wherefore have you not gone down unto your house?. ¹¹ And Uriah said unto David, `The ark, and Israel, and Judah, are abiding in booths, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, on the face of the field are encamping; and I--I go in unto my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife! --your life, and the life of your soul--if I do this thing.. ¹² And David said unto Uriah, `Abide in this [place] also to-day, and to-morrow I send you away;' and Uriah abides in Jerusalem, on that day, and on the morrow, ¹³ and David calls for him, and he eats before him, and drinks, and he causes him to drink, and he goes out in the evening to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, and unto his house he has not gone down. ¹⁴ And it comes to pass in the morning, that David writes a letter unto Joab, and sends by the hand of Uriah;" ¹⁵ and he writes in the letter, saying, `Place you Uriah over-against the front of the severest battle, and you have turned back from after him, and he has been smitten, and has died.. ¹⁶ And it comes to pass in Joab's watching of the city, that he appoints Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men [are];" ¹⁷ and the men of the city go out and fight with Joab, and there fall [some] of the people, of the servants of David; and there dies also Uriah the Hittite. ¹⁸ And Joab sends and declares to David all the matters of the war, ¹⁹ and commands the messenger, saying, `At your finishing all the matters of the war to speak unto the king, ²⁰ then, it has been, if the king's fury ascend, and he has said to you, Wherefore did you draw nigh unto the city to fight? did you not know that they shoot from off the wall? ²¹ Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast on him a piece of a rider from the wall, and he dies in Thebez? why drew you nigh unto the wall? that you have said, Also your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.. ²² And the messenger goes, and comes in, and declares to David all that with which Joab sent him, ²³ and the messenger said unto David, `Surely the men have been mighty against us, and come out unto us into the field, and we are upon them unto the opening of the gate, ²⁴ and those shooting shoot at your servants from off the wall, and [some] of the servants of the king are dead, and also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead. ²⁵ And David said unto the messenger, `Thus do you say unto Joab, Let not this thing be evil in your eyes; for thus and thus does the sword devour; strengthen your warfare against the city, and throw it down--and strengthen you him.. ²⁶ And the wife of Uriah hears that Uriah her husband [is] dead, and laments for her lord;" ²⁷ and the mourning passes by, and David sends and gathers her unto his house, and she is to him for a wife, and bears to him a son; and the thing which David has done is evil in the eyes of Yahweh.