English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Samuel Book, chapter 11, verse 28 in Akjv Version

2 Samuel 11 : 1 (AKJV)

And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11 : 2 (AKJV)

And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

2 Samuel 11 : 3 (AKJV)

And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

2 Samuel 11 : 4 (AKJV)

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house.

2 Samuel 11 : 5 (AKJV)

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

2 Samuel 11 : 6 (AKJV)

And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

2 Samuel 11 : 7 (AKJV)

And when Uriah was come to him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.

2 Samuel 11 : 8 (AKJV)

And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.

2 Samuel 11 : 9 (AKJV)

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 11 : 10 (AKJV)

And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his house, David said to Uriah, Came you not from your journey? why then did you not go down to your house?

2 Samuel 11 : 11 (AKJV)

And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.

2 Samuel 11 : 12 (AKJV)

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let you depart. So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

2 Samuel 11 : 13 (AKJV)

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 11 : 14 (AKJV)

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

2 Samuel 11 : 15 (AKJV)

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set you Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

2 Samuel 11 : 16 (AKJV)

And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew that valiant men were.

2 Samuel 11 : 17 (AKJV)

And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

2 Samuel 11 : 18 (AKJV)

Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

2 Samuel 11 : 19 (AKJV)

And charged the messenger, saying, When you have made an end of telling the matters of the war to the king,

2 Samuel 11 : 20 (AKJV)

And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say to you, Why approached you so near to the city when you did fight? knew you not that they would shoot from the wall?

2 Samuel 11 : 21 (AKJV)

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went you near the wall? then say you, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

2 Samuel 11 : 22 (AKJV)

So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

2 Samuel 11 : 23 (AKJV)

And the messenger said to David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entering of the gate.

2 Samuel 11 : 24 (AKJV)

And the shooters shot from off the wall on your servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

2 Samuel 11 : 25 (AKJV)

Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you say to Joab, Let not this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another: make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.

2 Samuel 11 : 26 (AKJV)

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 11 : 27 (AKJV)

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.