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. 3 So David sent someone to inquire about her, and he said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba,d daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriahe the Hethite?”C

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.f Afterward, she returned home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to inform David, “I am pregnant.”