2 Samuel 11:14-27 - Uriah's Death Arranged
14 And it will be in the morning, and David will write a letter to Joab, and send by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he will write in the letter: saying, Bring in Uriah to the front of the face of the strong battle, and turn ye back from after him, and he shall be smitten and die.
16 And it will be in Joab's watching the city, and he will give Uriah to the place where he knew that strong men were there. 17 And the men of the city will go forth and fight with Joab: and there will fall of the people from the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite also will die.
18 And Joab will send and announce to David all the words of the war; 19 And be will command the messenger, saying, When thou finishest all the words of the war to speak to the king, 20 And it being if the wrath of the king shall go up, and he say to thee, Wherefore drew ye near to the city to fight? did ye not know that they cast from above the wall? 21 Who struck Abimelech, son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast upon him a piece of the upper millstone from above the wall, and he will die in Thebez? Wherefore drew ye near to the wall? And say thou, Also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite died. 22 And the messenger will go, and come and announce to David all that for which Joab sent him. 23 And the messenger will say to David, That the men were strengthened upon us, and they came out to us to the field, and they were upon them, even to the door of the gate. 24 And they beholding, aimed at thy servants from above the wall: and from the servants of the king will die, and also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite died.
25 And David will say to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab, This same word shall not be evil in thine eyes, as this, and as this, the sword shall consume: strengthen thy battle against the city and pull it down: and strengthen yourselves.
26 And Uriah's wife will hear that Uriah her husband died, and she will mourn for her lord. 27 And the mourning will pass over, and David will send and take her to his house, and she will be to him for wife, and bear to him a son. And the word which David did will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah.