2 Samuel 11:1-7 ▼

1 One spring day, during the time of year when kings go off to war, David sent out Joab, along with his personal staff and all of Israel's army. They utterly destroyed the Ammonites and then attacked Rabbah while David remained in Jerusalem.

2 Late one afternoon about dusk, David got up from his couch and was walking around on the roof of the royal palace. From there he watched a woman taking a bath, and she was very beautiful to look at.

3 David sent word to inquire about her, and someone told him, |This is Eliam's daughter Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, isn't it?|

4 So David sent some messengers, took her from her home, and she went to him, and he had sex with her. (She had been consecrating herself following her menstrual separation.) Then she returned to her home.

5 The woman conceived, and she sent this message to David: |I'm pregnant.|

6 So David summoned Joab, and told him, |Send me Uriah the Hittite.| So Joab sent Uriah to David.

7 When Uriah arrived, David inquired about how Joab was doing, how the army was doing, and how the war was progressing.