2 Samuel 11:1-7 ▼

1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all [the fighting men of] Israel, and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

2 One evening David got up from his couch and was walking on the [flat] roof of the king’s palace, and from there he saw a woman bathing; and she was very beautiful in appearance.

3 David sent word and inquired about the woman. Someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

4 David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he lay with her. And when she was purified from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

5 The woman conceived; and she sent word and told David, “I am pregnant.”

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

7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the people were doing, and how the war was progressing.