1. In the spring, when kings go off to war, David sent Joab, along with his servants and all the Israelites, and they destroyed the Ammonites, attacking the city of Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2. One evening, David got up from his couch and was pacing back and forth on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.
3. David sent someone and inquired about the woman. The report came back: "Isn’t this Eliam’s daughter Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
4. So David sent messengers to get her. When she came to him, he had sex with her. (Now she had been purifying herself after her monthly period.) Then she returned home.
5. The woman conceived and sent word to David."I’m pregnant," she said.
6. Then David sent a message to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7. When Uriah came to him, David asked about the welfare of Joab and the army and how the battle was going.
8. Then David told Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet."Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
9. However, Uriah slept at the palace entrance with all his master’s servants. He didn’t go down to his own house.
10. David was told, "Uriah didn’t go down to his own house," so David asked Uriah, "Haven’t you just returned from a journey? Why didn’t you go home?"