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One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,
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and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
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Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.
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The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
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So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David.
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When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going.
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Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
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But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.