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Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day,
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David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
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In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die."
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As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant warriors.
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The men of the city came out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was killed as well.
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Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;
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and he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting,
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then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, "Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
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Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbaal? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, "Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead too.' "
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So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.