25 Then David said to the messenger, “This is what you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing [a]displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; [b]fight with determination against the city and overthrow it’; and thereby encourage him.”

26 Now when Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, (A)she mourned for her husband. 27 When the time of mourning was over, David sent servants and [c]had her brought to his house and (B)she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But (C)the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 11:25 Lit be evil in your sight
  2. 2 Samuel 11:25 Lit seize your battle against
  3. 2 Samuel 11:27 Lit brought her

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