David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 11:4 in context
2 Samuel 11:1–7
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At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
2
At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
3
David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
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David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
5
The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
6
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
7
When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
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