Holy Scripture
2 Samuel 11:5
A church father on this verse
“We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
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In context
3And David sent and inquired about the woman: and one said, Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.
— 2 Samuel 11:5 —
6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite; and Joab sent Uriah to David.
7And Uriah arrived and went in to him, and David asked him how Joab was, and how the people were, and how the war went on.