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Then Joab saw that the battle was set against him from the front and from the rear. So he chose from all the choice men of Israel, and they arranged themselves to meet the Arameans.

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near for the battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

Now the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans fled. So they also fled before Abishai and came into the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

Then the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel. So they gathered themselves together.

And it was told to David, so he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Arameans arranged themselves to meet David and fought against him.

Then all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that they were defeated by Israel. So they made peace with Israel and served them. And the Arameans were afraid to save the sons of Ammon anymore.

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

Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you out." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

And he had written in the letter, saying, "Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die."

So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men.

Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall so he died at Thebez? Why did you approach the wall?'—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"

So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

And 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."

Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing be evil in your sight, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and tear it down'; and so strengthen him."

Then the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband had died, so she lamented over her husband.

So now, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'

And Nathan went to his house. Then Yahweh smote the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, so that he was very sick.

And David saw that his servants were whispering together, so David discerned that the child had died; so David said to his servants, "Has the child died?" And they said, "He has died."

So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of Yahweh and worshiped. Then he came to his own house, and he asked, and they set food before him, and he ate.