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Chapter 11 And it came to pass,
after the year was expired, at the time

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when kings go forth to battle,
that David sent Joab and his servants with

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him, and all Israel.

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And they destroyed the children of Ammon,
and besieged Rabbah.

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But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

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And it came to pass in an evening tide,
that David arose from off his bed,

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and walked upon the roof of the king's
house.

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And from the roof he saw a woman washing
herself.

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And the woman was very beautiful to look
upon.

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And David sent, and inquired after the
woman.

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And one said, Is not this Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah

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the Hittite?

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And David sent messengers, and took her.

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And she came in unto him, and he lay with
her.

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For she was purified from her uncleanness.

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And she returned unto her house.

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And the woman conceived, and sent and told
David, and said, I am with child.

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And David sent to Joab, saying,
Send me Uriah the Hittite.

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And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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And when Uriah was come unto him,
David demanded of him how Joab did,

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and how the people did, and how the war
prospered.

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And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy
house, and wash thy feet.

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And Uriah departed out of the king's
house, and there followed him a mess of

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meat from the king.

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But Uriah slept at the door of the king's
house with all the servants of his lord,

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and went not down to his house.

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And when they had told David, saying,
Uriah went not down unto his house.

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David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not
from thy journey?

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Why then didst thou not go down unto thine
house?

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And Uriah said unto David, The ark,
and Israel, and Judah abide in tents.

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And my lord Joab, and the servants of my
lord, are encamped in the open fields.

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Shall I then go into mine house,
to eat, and to drink, and to lie with my

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wife?

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As thou livest, and as thy soul liveth,
I will not do this thing.

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And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to-day
also, and to-morrow I will let thee

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depart.

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So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day,
and the morrow.

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And when David had called him,
he did eat and drink before him,

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and he made him drunk.

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And at even he went out to lie on his bed
with the servants of his lord,

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but went not down to his house.

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And it came to pass in the morning,
that David wrote a letter to Joab,

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and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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And he wrote in the letter, saying,
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the

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hottest battle, and retire ye from him,
that he may be smitten and die.

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And it came to pass, when Joab observed
the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a

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place where he knew that valiant men were.

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And the men of the city went out,
and fought with Joab.

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And there fell some of the people of the
servants of David, and Uriah the Hittite

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died also.

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Then Joab sent, and told David all the
things concerning the war, and charged the

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messenger, saying, When thou hast made an
end of telling the matters of the war unto

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the king, and if so be that the king's
wrath arise, and he say unto thee,

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Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the
city, when ye did fight?

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Knew ye not that they would shoot from the
wall?

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Who smote Abimelech, the son of
Jerubbosheth?

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Did not a woman cast a piece of a
millstone upon him from the wall,

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that he died in Thebes?

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Why went ye nigh the wall?

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Then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead also.

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So the messenger went, and came and showed
David all that Joab had sent him for.

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And the messenger said unto David,
Surely the men prevailed against us,

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and came out unto us into the field,
and we were upon them even unto the

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entering of the gate.

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And the shooters shot from off the wall
upon thy servants, and some of the king's

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servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah
the Hittite is dead also.

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Then David said unto the messenger,
Thus shalt thou say unto Joab,

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Let not this thing displease thee,
for the sword devoureth one as well as

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another.

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Make thy battle more strong against the
city, and overthrow it, and encourage thou

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him.

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And when the wife of Uriah heard that
Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned

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for her husband.

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And when the morning was passed,
David sent and fetched her to his house,

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and she became his wife, and there him a
son.

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But the thing that David had done
displeased the Lord.