2 Samuel 11:4–15

⁴And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:

⁵And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.

⁶And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.

⁷And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the people, and how the war was carried on.

⁸And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And Urias went out from the king’s house, and there went out after him a mess of meat from the king.

⁹But Urias slept before the gate of the king’s house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.

¹⁰And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?

¹¹And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.

¹²Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I will send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.

¹³And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.

¹⁴And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,

¹⁵Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.