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And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, 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, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.
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And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the front of the 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 to a place where he knew that valiant men [were].
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And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
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Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
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And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war to the king,
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And if the king's wrath shall rise, and he shall say to thee, Why approached ye so nigh to the city for the fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? 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 to David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were upon them even to the entrance of the gate.