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6 Then David sent to Joab, to send unto him Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 And when Uriah was come unto him, he demanded how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
8 And David said moreover to Uriah, "Go down to thine house and wash thy feet." And Uriah departed out of the king's palace, and there followed him a service from the king's table.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's palace with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
10 Then they told David, saying, "Uriah descended not into his house." Then said David unto Uriah, "Seeing that thou art come from journeying, why dost thou not go down unto thine house?"
11 And Uriah said unto David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in pavilions; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord lie in tents upon the flat earth — and should I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By thy life and as sure as thy soul liveth, I will not do that thing."
12 Then said David unto Uriah, "Tarry here this day also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart." And so Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and on the morrow.
13 And David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at even he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of the lord, and went not down to his house.
14 Wherefore on the morrow David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter saying, "Put Uriah in the forefront of the battle where it is most strong, and come back from him that he may be smitten to death."
16 And as Joab beseiged the city he assigned Uriah unto a place where he wist that strong men were.
17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And there were certain overthrown of the people and of the servants of David — and Uriah the Hittite died also.