2-4. Late one afternoon, David got up from a nap and was walking around on the flat roof of his palace. A beautiful young woman was down below in her courtyard, bathing as her religion required. David happened to see her, and he sent one of his servants to find out who she was.The servant came back and told David, “Her name is Bathsheba. She is the daughter of Eliam, and she is the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”David sent some messengers to bring her to his palace. She came to him, and he slept with her. Then she returned home.
5. But later, when she found out that she was going to have a baby, she sent someone to David with this message: “I'm pregnant!”
6. David sent a message to Joab: “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.”Joab sent Uriah
7. to David's palace, and David asked him, “Is Joab well? How is the army doing? And how about the war?”
8. Then David told Uriah, “Go home and clean up.” Uriah left the king's palace, and David had dinner sent to Uriah's house.
9. But Uriah didn't go home. Instead, he slept outside the entrance to the royal palace, where the king's guards slept.
20. he may get angry and ask, “Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?
21. Don't you know how Abimelech the son of Gideon was killed at Thebez? Didn't a woman kill him by dropping a large rock from the top of the city wall? Why did you go so close to the city walls?”Then you tell him, “One of your soldiers who was killed was Uriah the Hittite.”
22. The messenger went to David and reported everything Joab had told him.