Uriah

David made inquiries about the woman and was told that she was Bat-Sheva the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uriyah the Hitti.

David sent this order to Yo'av: "Send me Uriyah the Hitti." Yo'av sent Uriyah to David.

When Uriyah had come to him, David asked him how Yo'av was doing, how the people were feeling and how the war was going.

Then David said to Uriyah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." Uriyah left the king's palace and was followed by a present of food from the king.

But Uriyah slept at the door of the king's palace with all the servants of his lord and didn't go down to his house.

When they told David, "Uriyah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriyah, "Haven't you just arrived from a journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"

Uriyah answered David, "The ark, Isra'el and Y'hudah stay in tents; and my lord Yo'av and the servants of my lord are camping in the countryside. So should I go into my house to eat and drink and go to bed with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!"

David said to Uriyah, "Stay here today also; tomorrow I will let you leave." So Uriyah stayed in Yerushalayim that day and the following day.

In the morning David wrote a letter to Yo'av and sent it with Uriyah.

In the letter he wrote, "Put Uriyah on the front lines of the fiercest fighting; then pull back from him, so that he will be wounded and killed."

So while Yo'av had the city under siege, he assigned Uriyah to the place where he knew the toughest defenders were.

The men of the city went out and fought Yo'av; a number of people fell, including some of David's servants, with Uriyah the Hitti among the dead.

Didn't you think about the person who struck Avimelekh the son of Yerubeshet, that a woman threw an upper millstone down on him from the wall, so that he died at Tevetz? Why did you go so near the wall?' If he says this, tell him, 'Your servant Uriyah is dead also.'"

The archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king's servants are dead; also your servant Uriyah the Hitti is dead."

When the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah her husband was dead, she mourned her husband.

"'So why have you shown such contempt for the word of ADONAI and done what I see as evil? You murdered Uriyah the Hitti with the sword and taken his wife as your own wife; you put him to death with the sword of the people of 'Amon.

Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house - because you have shown contempt for me and taken the wife of Uriyah the Hitti as your own wife.'

Then Natan returned to his house. ADONAI struck the child that Uriyah's wife had borne to David, and it became very ill.

Uriyah the Hitti

For David had done what was right from ADONAI's perspective; he had not turned away from anything he had ordered him to do, as long as he lived, except in the matter of Uriyah the Hitti.

Uriyah the Hitti, Zavad the son of Achlai,

Yishai was the father of David the king. David was the father of Shlomo (his mother was the wife of Uriyah),