4. Then David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he took her to bed, at a time when she was just purified after her period; and she returned to her house.
5. But the woman had become pregnant; she sent a message to inform David, “I am pregnant.”
6. So David sent a message to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
7. And when he came, David asked him how Joab was, how the army was, and how the war was going, and Uriah answered that all was well.
8. David then said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and bathe your feet.” Uriah left the king’s house, and a portion from the king’s table was sent after him.
9. But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with the other officers of his lord, and did not go down to his own house.
10. David was told, “Uriah has not gone down to his house.” So he said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why, then, did you not go down to your house?”
11. Uriah answered David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my lord Joab and my lord’s servants are encamped in the open field. Can I go home to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? As the Lord lives and as you live, I will do no such thing.”
12. Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day. On the following day,
13. David summoned him, and he ate and drank with David, who got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed among his lord’s servants, and did not go down to his house.
14. The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab which he sent by Uriah.
15. This is what he wrote in the letter: “Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead.”