At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. 1Ch 20:11Ki 20:261Ki 20:222Ch 36:10Ecc 3:8Deu 3:11Ezk 21:202Sa 12:26-28 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at. Mat 5:28Psa 119:371Jn 2:16Act 10:9Job 31:1Pro 6:251Pe 4:71Th 5:6-7 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?” 2Sa 23:391Ch 3:5Jas 1:14-15Jer 5:81Ch 11:41Hos 7:6-7
David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. Jas 1:14-15Lev 18:19Psa 51:1-19Lev 12:2-5Pro 30:20Gen 39:7Job 31:9-11Lev 15:19-33 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” Deu 22:22Pro 6:34
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David. Pro 28:131Sa 15:30Gen 38:18-23Gen 4:7Isa 29:13Job 20:12-14Mat 26:70Mat 26:72 When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. 1Sa 17:22Gen 37:14Gen 29:6 David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him. Gen 18:4Gen 19:2Gen 43:24Gen 43:34Heb 4:13Isa 29:15Luk 12:2Luk 7:44 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house. Job 5:12-14Pro 21:30 When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!” 2Sa 7:22Sa 20:62Sa 7:61Sa 1:261Co 9:25-271Sa 14:181Sa 17:551Sa 20:3
David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day. Jer 2:22-23Jer 2:37 When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house. Hab 2:15Gen 19:32-35Exo 32:21Pro 20:1 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 1Ki 21:8-10Jer 17:9Jer 9:1-4Mic 7:3-5Psa 19:13Psa 52:2Psa 62:9 He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.” 2Sa 12:9Psa 51:41Sa 18:171Sa 18:211Sa 18:252Sa 11:17Jer 20:13Psa 51:14
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 1Ki 2:31-341Ki 2:51Ki 21:12-141Sa 22:17-192Ki 10:62Sa 11:212Sa 20:9-102Sa 3:27 The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 2Sa 12:9Psa 51:14 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king, it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall? Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’” Jdg 7:1Jdg 9:50-542Sa 3:272Sa 3:34Jdg 6:32Ezk 16:51-52Isa 14:10Psa 39:8
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field; and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate. The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.” 1Sa 6:92Sa 12:26Ecc 9:1-3Jos 7:8-9Ecc 9:11-12
When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 2Sa 14:22Sa 3:31Gen 27:41 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 2Sa 12:9Psa 51:4-51Ch 21:7Heb 13:4Deu 22:29Gen 38:102Sa 3:2-52Sa 5:13-16