5And the woman conceived, and she sent a message to David that said, “I am with child.” 6And David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah, the Hittite”. And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7And when Uriah had come, David asked him how Joab, and the people were doing, and how the war was going. 8And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and relax”. And Uriah left, and there followed for him a present from the king. 9But Uriah slept with all the David’s servants at the door of the king's house, and did not go down to his house. 10And when they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house”, David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you just returned after being gone for quite a while? Why, then, did you not go down to your house?” 11And Uriah said, “The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord, Joab, and all your servants are encamped in the open fields. 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”. 12And David said to Uriah, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart”. So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next. 13And when David had called him, he had him eat and drink and he made him drunk. And that evening he again went out to lie on a bed with David’s servants, but did not go down to his house.

14And in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it in the hand of Uriah. 15And in the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest part of battle, and retire from him, so that he may be struck down, and die.” 16And when Joab assessed the city under siege, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17And the defenders of the city mounted a counter-offensive against Joab’s men; and some of them fell; and Uriah, the Hittite, died also. 18Then Joab sent a battle report to David, 19And told the messenger, “When you have finished reporting the matters of the war to the king, 20If the king's wrath arises, and he asks you, “Why do you approach so near to the city when you fight? Do you not knew that they would shoot from the wall? 21Who killed Abimelech, the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who threw a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?” Then reply, “Your servant Uriah, the Hittite, is dead also”. 22So the messenger went, and came and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say. 23And the messenger said to David, “Surely the defenders overpowered us, and drove us out into the field, and then we drove them back to the city gate entrance. 24And the shooters shot from off the wall upon your men; and some of the king's men are dead, and your servant, Uriah, the Hittite, is also dead”. 25Then David said to the messenger, “Say this to Joab, ‘Do not let this setback discourage you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle even stronger against the city, and conquer it’; and encourage Joab.”

26And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah, her husband, was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.