2 Samuel 11:13-15

Christian Standard Bible

¹³ Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. He went out in the evening to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

Uriah’s Death Arranged

¹⁴ The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. ¹⁵ In the letter he wrote:

Put Uriah^(A) at the front of the fiercest fighting, then withdraw from him so that he is struck down and dies.