2. One evening David got up from his bed. He walked around on the roof of his palace. While he was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful.
3. So David sent his servants to find out who she was. A servant answered, “That woman is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam. She is the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
4. David sent messengers to bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to him, he had physical relations with her. (Now Bathsheba had purified herself from her monthly period.) Then she went back to her house.
5. But Bathsheba became pregnant. She sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
6. So David sent this message to Joab: “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7. Uriah came to David. And David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going.
8. Then David said to Uriah, “Go home and rest.”So Uriah left the palace. The king also sent a gift to him.
9. But Uriah did not go home. He slept outside the door of the palace. He slept there as all the king’s officers did.
10. The officers told David, “Uriah did not go home.”Then David said to Uriah, “You came from a long trip. Why didn’t you go home?”
11. Uriah said to him, “The Ark of the Covenant and the soldiers of Israel and Judah are staying in tents. My master Joab and his officers are camping out in the fields. It isn’t right for me to go home to eat and drink and have intimate relations with my wife!”
12. David said to Uriah, “Stay here today. Tomorrow I’ll send you back to the battle.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.