his own house.

11:10. And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his
house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey?
why didst thou not go down to thy house?

11:11. And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell
in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the
face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink,
and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul
I will not do this thing.

11:12. Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I will
send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.

11:13. And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made
him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with
the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.

11:14. And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and
sent it by the hand of Urias,

11:15. Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle,
where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded
and die.

11:16. Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the
place where he knew the bravest men were.

11:17. And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and
there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the
Hethite was killed also.

11:18. Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.

11:19. And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the
words of the battle to the king,

11:20. If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you
approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are
thrown from above off the wall?

11:21. Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a
piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why
did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite
is also slain.

11:22. So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab
had commanded him.

11:23. And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us,
and they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and
pursued them even to the gate of the city.

11:24. And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the
wall above: and some of the king's servants are slain, and thy servant
Urias the Hethite is also dead.

11:25. And David said