Holy Scripture
2 Samuel 11:7
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
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.
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5And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite; and Joab sent Uriah to David.
— 2 Samuel 11:7 —
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.
9And Uriah slept at the door of the king with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.