5
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
6
And David sent to Joab [saying], Send me Urijah the Hittite. And Joab sent Urijah to David.
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And when Urijah had come to him, David asked how Joab prospered, and how the people prospered, and how the war prospered.
8
And David said to Urijah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Urijah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him presents from the king.
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And Urijah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
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And they had told David saying, Urijah did not go down to his house; and David said to Urijah, Art thou not come from a journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
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And Urijah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [As] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
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And David said to Urijah, Abide here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. And Urijah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow.
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And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go 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 Urijah.
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And he wrote in the letter saying, Set Urijah in the front of the thickest fight, and withdraw from him, that he may be smitten and die.