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And David sent and inquired about the woman. And they said, "Is this not Bathsheba (Batseba), the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" [He was one of David's officers who had gone out to battle with David's army. The name Bathsheba means "daughter of the promise."]
[Since it would be obvious that Uriah could not be the father of the child, David devised a plan.] David then sent word to [his general] Joab: "Send me the Hittite Uriah." And Joab sent Uriah to David.
And when Uriah came to him [an 8-mile walk from Rabbah to Jerusalem], David asked him how Joab was doing, how the people were doing, and how the war was going.
And David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet."
And Uriah left the king's house, and after him a gift [food and wine] was sent to his house from the king.
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.
And they told David, saying, "Orija did not go down to his house." David said to Orija, "Have you not come from a journey? Why do you not go down to your house?"
And Orija said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my lord Joab and my lord's servants are camping in the open field. Should I go into my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing."
And David said to Orija, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go." So Orija stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.
The next morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
In the letter he wrote: "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest, and then withdraw from him so that he will be struck down and die."
And it came to pass, when Joab was keeping watch over the city [the besieged Rabbah], that he placed Uriah in the place where he knew there were fierce men [in the enemy army].
[Israel's tactic was to starve out the city's inhabitants. The battles that could arise were when the Ammonites went out from the city gate and tried to break the siege. Joab probably placed Orija near the city gate, see .]
And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people fell, from among David's servants, and also the Hittite Oriah died.
Who struck down Abimelech [], the son of Jerubbesheth [Gideon]? [Abimelech was Gideon's son, see . Gideon was also called Jerubbaal, see , here in a different spelling where the idol Baal is replaced with boshet, which means shame, see also Eshbaal/Ishbosheth (; ). Jerubesheth literally means 'shame shall contend'.] Was it not a woman who threw the upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died in Tabeeth? [Today the city of Tubas, 15 km northeast of Shechem, see ] Why did you go so close to the wall? Then you shall say, 'Your servant Orija the Hittite is also dead.'"
And the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Orija is also dead."
And when Orija's wife [Bathsheba] heard that Orija, her husband, was dead, she mourned for her husband [for seven days].
Why have you despised the word of the Lord (Yahweh) to do what is evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and taken his wife to be your wife, and you have struck him down with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
And now the sword shall never depart from your house [conflicts and strife in the family] because you have despised me and have taken the wife of the Hittite Uriah to be your wife.
And Nathan went to his house.
And the Lord (Yahweh) struck the child (Hebr. jeled) that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and it became very ill.
Orija, the Hittite.
All 37 [including those who died].
because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord (Yahweh) and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the incident with Uriah the Hittite.
Uriah the Hittite,
Sabad, son of Alah,
Jishai begot David, the king. [Both "David" and "king" are in the definite form in Greek, which gives extra emphasis. Literally: "The David, the king".]
[The second part has fourteen links between Solomon and Jehoiachin, David is mentioned again but is not counted as a link. Thirty names are mentioned, including the repetition of David and Bathsheba's husband Uriah, who is not included in the family tree. Of these, 29 are men and one is a woman.]
David begot Solomon, whose mother [Bathsheba; Hebr. Batsheva] was the wife of Uriah [whom David stole from him, see ],
