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David’s Adultery with Bathsheba
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|2 Samuel 11:1| In the spring when kings march out to war, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. a
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|2 Samuel 11:2| One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing — a very beautiful woman.
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|2 Samuel 11:3| So David sent someone to inquire about her, and he reported, “This is Bathsheba, b daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah c the Hittite.” 1
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|2 Samuel 11:4| David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. d Afterward, she returned home.
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|2 Samuel 11:5| The woman conceived and sent word to inform David: “I am pregnant.”
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|2 Samuel 11:6| David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
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|2 Samuel 11:7| When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.
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|2 Samuel 11:8| Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
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|2 Samuel 11:9| But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
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|2 Samuel 11:10| When it was reported to David, “Uriah didn’t go home,” David questioned Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a journey? Why didn’t you go home?”
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