Holy Scripture
2 Samuel 11:6
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
6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite; and Joab sent Uriah to David.
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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.
5And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
— 2 Samuel 11:6 —
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.
8And David said to Uriah, Go to thy house, and wash thy feet: and Uriah departed from the house of the king, and a portion of meat from the king followed him.