But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and attacked us in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way to the door of the city gate.

He called his personal attendant and said to him, "Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!"

(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king's virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon's attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.