12. Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I will send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13. And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.
14. And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,
15. Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.
16. Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.