2 Samuel 11:22-27 ▼

22 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

23 And the messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

24 And the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants died, and your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.”

25 Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing be evil in your sight, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and tear it down’; and so strengthen him.”

26 Then the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband had died, so she lamented over her husband.

27 Then the time of mourning passed by, and David sent and gathered her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Yahweh.