2 Samuel 11:6-17

6Then David sent a messenger to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

7When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the troops were and how the war was going.

8“Go home,” David said to Uriah, “and wash your feet.” Uriah left the royal palace, and the king sent a present to him.

9But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace among his superior’s mercenaries. He didn’t go home.

10When they told David, “Uriah didn’t go home,” David asked Uriah, “Didn’t you just come from a journey? Why didn’t you go home?”

11Uriah answered David, “The ark and ⌞the army of⌟ Israel and Judah are in temporary shelters, and my commander Joab and Your Majesty’s mercenaries are living in the field. Should I then go to my house to eat and drink and go to bed with my wife? I solemnly swear, as sure as you’re living, I won’t do this!”

12David said to Uriah, “Then stay here today, and tomorrow I’ll send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

13David summoned him, ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But that evening Uriah went to lie down on his bed among his superior’s mercenaries. He didn’t go home.

14In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

15In the letter he wrote, “Put Uriah on the front line where the fighting is heaviest. Then abandon him so that he’ll be struck down and die.”

16Since Joab had kept the city under observation, he put Uriah at the place where he knew the experienced warriors were.

17The men of the city came out and fought Joab. Some of the people, namely, some of David’s mercenaries, fell and died—including Uriah the Hittite.