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2 Samuel 11:23-27

2 Samuel 11:23

The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

2 Samuel 11:24

Also, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants died, and your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.”

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the messenger, “This is what you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; fight with determination against the city and overthrow it’; and thereby encourage him.”

2 Samuel 11:26

Now when Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 11:27

When the time of mourning was over, David sent servants and had her brought to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.