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factum est ergo vertente anno eo tempore quo solent regesad bella procedere misit David Ioab et servos suos cum eo etuniversum Israhel et vastaverunt filios Ammon et obsederuntRabba David autem remansit in Hierusalem

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dum haec agerentur accidit ut surgeret David de stratu suopost meridiem et deambularet in solario domus regiae viditquemulierem se lavantem ex adverso super solarium suum erat autemmulier pulchra valde

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misit ergo rex et requisivit quae esset mulier nuntiatumqueei est quod ipsa esset Bethsabee filia Heliam uxor UriaeHetthei

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missis itaque David nuntiis tulit eam quae cum ingressaesset ad illum dormivit cum ea statimque sanctificata est abinmunditia sua

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et reversa est domum suam concepto fetu mittensquenuntiavit David et ait concepi

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misit autem David ad Ioab dicens mitte ad me Uriam Hettheummisitque Ioab Uriam ad David

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et venit Urias ad David quaesivitque David quam recteageret Ioab et populus et quomodo administraretur bellum

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et dixit David ad Uriam vade in domum tuam et lava pedestuos egressus est Urias de domo regis secutusque est eum cibusregius

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dormivit autem Urias ante portam domus regiae cum aliisservis domini sui et non descendit ad domum suam

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nuntiatumque est David a dicentibus non ivit Urias addomum suam et ait David ad Uriam numquid non de via venistiquare non descendisti ad domum tuam

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et ait Urias ad David arca et Israhel et Iuda habitant inpapilionibus et dominus meus Ioab et servi domini mei superfaciem terrae manent et ego ingrediar domum meam ut comedam etbibam et dormiam cum uxore mea per salutem tuam et per salutemanimae tuae quod non faciam rem hanc

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ait ergo David ad Uriam mane hic etiam hodie et crasdimittam te mansit Urias in Hierusalem die illa et altera

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et vocavit eum David ut comederet coram se et biberet etinebriavit eum qui egressus vespere dormivit in stratu suo cumservis domini sui et in domum suam non descendit

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factum est ergo mane et scripsit David epistulam ad Ioabmisitque per manum Uriae

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scribens in epistula ponite Uriam ex adverso belli ubifortissimum proelium est et derelinquite eum ut percussusintereat

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igitur cum Ioab obsideret urbem posuit Uriam in loco quosciebat viros esse fortissimos

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egressique viri de civitate bellabant adversum Ioab etceciderunt de populo servorum David et mortuus est etiam UriasHettheus

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misit itaque Ioab et nuntiavit David omnia verba proelii

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praecepitque nuntio dicens cum conpleveris universossermones belli ad regem

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si eum videris indignari et dixerit quare accessistis admurum ut proeliaremini an ignorabatis quod multa desuper exmuro tela mittantur

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quis percussit Abimelech filium Hieroboseth nonne muliermisit super eum fragmen molae de muro et interfecit eum inThebes quare iuxta murum accessistis dices etiam servus tuusUrias Hettheus occubuit

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abiit ergo nuntius et venit et narravit David omnia quaeei praeceperat Ioab

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et dixit nuntius ad David praevaluerunt adversum nos viriet egressi sunt ad nos in agrum nos autem facto impetupersecuti eos sumus usque ad portam civitatis

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et direxerunt iacula sagittarii ad servos tuos ex murodesuper mortuique sunt de servis regis quin etiam servus tuusUrias Hettheus mortuus est

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et dixit David ad nuntium haec dices Ioab non te frangatista res varius enim eventus est proelii et nunc hunc nuncillum consumit gladius conforta bellatores tuos adversum urbemut destruas eam et exhortare eos

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audivit autem uxor Uriae quod mortuus esset Urias vir suuset planxit eum

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transactoque luctu misit David et introduxit eam domumsuam et facta est ei uxor peperitque ei filium et displicuitverbum hoc quod fecerat David coram Domino

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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.

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And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon 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 upon.

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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

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And Uriah said unto 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 mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

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And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

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

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

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

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Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

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

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

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