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|2 Samuel 11:11|
Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”
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12
|2 Samuel 11:12|
Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
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13
|2 Samuel 11:13|
At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
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14
|2 Samuel 11:14|
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
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15
|2 Samuel 11:15|
In it he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so that he will be struck down and die.”
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16
|2 Samuel 11:16|
So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.
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17
|2 Samuel 11:17|
When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
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18
|2 Samuel 11:18|
Joab sent David a full account of the battle.
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19
|2 Samuel 11:19|
He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,
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20
|2 Samuel 11:20|
the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, `Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?
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