BRAGADAYJAH 935
The Death of Uriah
When David, therefore, heard that Uriah had not gone to his own house
that night, but slept among his household servants, David asked him why he had
not gone to his own house seeing he had just returned from a long journey. Then
Uriah said to the king that the Ark, and Israel, and Judah all else abode in
tents, including Joab David’s commander and are encamped out in the fields, and
he did not think it appropriate to eat the kings food and drink the king’s wine, and go and lie in his own
house with his wife. Then David invited Uriah to spend another day with him and
depart the following morning. So Uriah spent that day in Jerusalem. And that
evening David encouraged him eat and drink until he was drunk; and after that
he went and lay down in the field with the rest of David’s servants. And the next morning David wrote a letter to
Joab his field commander and sent it by the hand of Uriah. The letter was in fact Uriah’s own death
warrant. For it instructed Joab to put
Uriah at the front of the hottest battle, and give him no support that he may
be smitten and die. And so it was that Joab picked a spot where he knew the
most valiant men were and sent Uriah to fight there. And sure enough, some of
David’s soldiers died in that battle and Uriah also died.
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