When Uriah's wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for him.

The king replied to her, "What do you want?" She answered, "I am a widow; my husband is dead.

Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying, 'Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.' They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband."

So Ish-bosheth took her from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.

Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him, "Go back!" So he returned home.