2 Samuel 11:6-17

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

7When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the troops fared, and how the war was going.

8Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” When Uriah left the royal palace, a present from the king followed him.

9But Uriah slept at the door of the royal palace with all his master’s servants, and did not go down to his house.

10When they informed David saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”

11But Uriah answered David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my lord Joab and the officers of my lord are camping in the open field. Should I then go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

12Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you off.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day. The next day,

13David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. But in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his master’s servants, but did not go down to his house.

14So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah’s hand.

15In the letter he wrote, “Put Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and withdraw from him so that he may be struck down and die.”

16So it came to pass, when Joab was besieging the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

17Then the men of the city came out and attacked Joab, and some of the troops of David’s officers fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.