1And it was at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings come out, and David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they ruined the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.2And it was at the time of the evening, and David arose from his bed and walked upon the roof of the house of the king, and he saw a woman washing from the roof, and the woman was of much pleasant appearance.3And David sent and sought the woman, and he said, "Is not this Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?"4And David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay down with her, and she was purifying herself from her uncleanness, and she returned to her house.5And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant."6And David sent to Joab, "Send to me Uriah the Hittite," and Joab sent Uriah to David.7And Uriah came to him, and David asked about the peace of Joab and about the peace of the people and about the peace of the battle.8And David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." And Uriah went out from the house of the king, and a present from the king went out after him.9And Uriah lay down at the entrance of the house of the king with all the servants of his lord, and he did not go down to his house.10And they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house." And David said to Uriah, "Is it not from the way you are coming? Why did you not go down to your house?"11And Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are upon the face of the land camping, and I, shall I come to my house to eat and to drink and to lie down with my woman? By your life and by the life of your soul, if I do this word."12And David said to Uriah, "Dwell in this also today, and tomorrow I will send you," and Uriah dwelt in Jerusalem in that day and from the morrow.13And David called to him, and he ate before him and drank, and he made him drunk, and he went out in the evening to lie down in his bed with the servants of his lord, and to his house he did not go down.14And it was in the morning, and David wrote a scroll to Joab and sent in the hand of Uriah.15And he wrote in the scroll, saying, "Give Uriah to the front of the battle, the strong, and you return from after him, and he is struck and dies."16And it was, while Joab was keeping watch over the city, that he placed Uriah in the place which he knew, for there were men of force there.17And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and he fell from the people, from the servants of David, and Uriah the Hittite also died.18And Joab sent and told to David all the words of the battle.19And he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling the king all the words of the battle,"20And it was, if the rage of the king ascends and he says to you, "Why did you approach the city to fight? Did you not know that they shoot from the wall?"21Who struck down Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw a millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you approach the wall? And you shall say, "Also your servant Uriah the Hittite died."22And the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him.23And the messenger said to David, "For the men prevailed against us and came out against us into the field, and we were upon them as far as the entrance of the gate."24And they shot, and the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the servants of the king died, and also your servant Uriah the Hittite died.25And David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, Let not the matter be evil in your eyes, for the sword devours in this way and that; strengthen your attack on the city and overthrow it, and strengthen him."26And the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband had died, and she mourned for her husband.27And the mourning passed, and David sent and gathered her to his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the eyes of the LORD.