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6 Then sent David unto Joab, Send unto me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent Uriah unto David.
7 And, when Uriah had come in unto him, David asked––how Joab prospered, and how the people prospered, and how the war prospered.
8 Then said David unto Uriah, Go down unto thy house, and bathe thy feet. And, when Uriah went out of the house of the king, there followed him, a present from the king.
9 But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house, with all the servants of his lord,––and went not down unto his own house.
10 And it was told David, saying, Uriah went not down, unto his own house. So David said unto Uriah––Was it not, from a journey, thou didst come? why, then, hast thou not been down unto thine own house?
11 And Uriah said unto David––The ark, and Israel and Judah, are dwelling in huts and, my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, on the face of the field, are encamped, Was, I, then, to enter my own house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By thy life, yea by the life of thy soul, I could not do this thing.
12 Then said David unto Uriah––Abide here today also, and, tomorrow, will I let thee go. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
13 And David called him, and he did eat before him, and drank, and he made him drunk,––and he went forth in the evening to lie down on his bed, with the servants of his lord, but, unto his own house, went he not down.
14 And so it was, in the morning, that David wrote a letter unto 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 be smitten and die. 16 So it came to pass, when Joab was laying siege to the city, that he put Uriah in the place where he knew that the men of valour, were. 17 And forth sallied the men of the city, and fought with Joab, and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David,––then died also, Uriah the Hittite. 18 So Joab sent and told David all the news of the battle; 19 and he charged the messenger saying,––When thou hast ended all the news of the battle, in speaking unto the king, 20 then shall it be, if the king’s anger arise, and he say unto thee, Why came ye near unto the city, to fight? Knew ye not, that they would shoot from off the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbaal? Did not, a woman, cast on him an upper millstone from off the wall, that he died, in Thebez? Wherefore came ye near unto the wall? Then shalt thou say––Moreover, thy servant, Uriah the Hittite, died.
14 And so it was, in the morning, that David wrote a letter unto 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 be smitten and die. 16 So it came to pass, when Joab was laying siege to the city, that he put Uriah in the place where he knew that the men of valour, were. 17 And forth sallied the men of the city, and fought with Joab, and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David,––then died also, Uriah the Hittite. 18 So Joab sent and told David all the news of the battle; 19 and he charged the messenger saying,––When thou hast ended all the news of the battle, in speaking unto the king, 20 then shall it be, if the king’s anger arise, and he say unto thee, Why came ye near unto the city, to fight? Knew ye not, that they would shoot from off the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbaal? Did not, a woman, cast on him an upper millstone from off the wall, that he died, in Thebez? Wherefore came ye near unto the wall? Then shalt thou say––Moreover, thy servant, Uriah the Hittite, died.