11 Then Uriah answered David, [a]The Ark and Israel, and Judah dwell in tents: and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide in the open fields: shall I then go into mine house to eat and drink, and lie with my wife? by thy life, and by the life of thy soul, I will not do this thing.

12 Then David said unto Uriah, Tarry yet this day, and tomorrow I will send thee away. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

13 Then David called him, and he did eat and drink before him, and he made him [b]drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 11:11 Hereby God would touch David’s conscience, that seeing the fidelity and religion of his servant, he would declare himself so forgetful of God, and injurious to his servant.
  2. 2 Samuel 11:13 He made him drink more liberally than he was wont to do, thinking hereby he would have lain by his wife.

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