2 Samuel 11

David sends Joab against the Ammonites, who besieges the city of Rabbah, 2 Samuel 11:1 . He sees Bath-sheba, the wife of Uriah, bathing; is enamoured of her; sends for and takes her to his bed, 2 Samuel 11:2-4 . She conceives, and informs David, 2 Samuel 11:5 . David sends to Joab, and orders him to send to him Uriah, 2 Samuel 11:6 . He arrives; and David having inquired the state of the army, dismisses him, desiring him to go to his own house, 2 Samuel 11:7 , 2 Samuel 11:8 . Uriah sleeps at the door of the king's house, 2 Samuel 11:9 . The next day the king urges him to go to his house; but he refuses to go, and gives the most pious and loyal reasons for his refusal, 2 Samuel 11:10-11 . David after two days sends him back to the army, with a letter to Joab, desiring him to place Uriah in the front of the battle, that he may be slain, 2 Samuel 11:12-15 . He does so; and Uriah falls, 2 Samuel 11:16 , 2 Samuel 11:17 . Joab communicates this news in an artful message to David, 2 Samuel 11:18-25 . David sends for Bath-sheba and takes her to wife, and she bears him a son, 2 Samuel 11:26 , 2 Samuel 11:27 .