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Then David sent to Joab,
saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7
And when Uriah had come unto him, David asked
him how Joab was and how the people were and how the war prospered.
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And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and royal food was sent unto him.
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But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the slaves of his lord and did not go down to his house.
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And when they had told David, saying, Uriah did not go down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Didst thou not come from
thy journey? Why
then didst thou not go down to thy house?
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And Uriah said unto David, The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents, and my lord Joab and the slaves 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?
By thy life and
by the life of thy soul, I will not do this thing.
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And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
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And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the slaves 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 the hand of Uriah.
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And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire 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 unto a place where he knew that the most valiant men
were.