David Arranges Uriah’s Murder

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And on the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.

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And he wrote thus in the letter, Put ye Vriah in the forefront of the strength of the battell, and recule ye backe from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

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So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Vriah vnto a place, where he knewe that strong men were.

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And the men of the citie came out, and fought with Ioab: and there fell of the people of the seruants of Dauid, and Vriah the Hittite also dyed.

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Then Ioab sent and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre,

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And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling all the matters of the warre vnto the King,

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And if the kings anger arise, so that he say vnto thee, Wherefore approched ye vnto the citie to fight? knewe ye not that they would hurle from the wall?

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Who smote Abimelech sonne of Ierubesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon him from the wall, and he died in Thebez? why went you nie the wall? Then say thou, Thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.

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So the messenger went, and came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for.

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And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Certainely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, but we pursued them vnto the entring of the gate.

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But the shooters shot from ye wall against thy seruants, and some of the Kings seruants be dead: and thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.

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Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing trouble thee: for the sworde deuoureth one as well as another: make thy battell more strong against the citie and destroy it, and encourage thou him.

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