In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged\xa0Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2\xa0It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on\xa0the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.\xa03\xa0And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, \u201cIs not this\xa0Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of\xa0Uriah the Hittite?\u201d\xa04\xa0So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.\xa05\xa0And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, \u201cI am pregnant.\u201d 6\xa0So David sent word to Joab, \u201cSend me Uriah the Hittite.\u201d And Joab sent Uriah to David.\xa07\xa0When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.\xa08\xa0Then David said to Uriah, \u201cGo down to your house and\xa0wash your feet.\u201d And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.\xa09\xa0But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.10\xa0When they told David, \u201cUriah did not go down to his house,\u201d David said to Uriah, \u201cHave you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?\u201d\xa011\xa0Uriah said to David,\xa0\u201cThe ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and\xa0the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and\xa0as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.\u201d\xa012\xa0Then David said to Uriah, \u201cRemain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.\u201d So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.\xa013\xa0And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank,\xa0so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with\xa0the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.14\xa0In the morning David\xa0wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.\xa015\xa0In the letter he wrote, \u201cSet Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him,\xa0that he may be struck down, and die.\u201d2 Samuel 11:1-15 (ESV)
When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.\xa027\xa0And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and\xa0she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the\xa0Lord.2 Samuel 11:26-27(ESV)
Have mercy on me,\xa0O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your\xa0abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2\xa0Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and\xa0cleanse me from my sin! 3\xa0For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4\xa0Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil\xa0in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5\xa0Behold,\xa0I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6\xa0Behold, you delight in truth in\xa0the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 7\xa0Purge me\xa0with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be\xa0whiter than snow.8\xa0Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones\xa0that you have broken rejoice. 9\xa0Hide your face from my sins, and\xa0blot out all my iniquities. Psalm 51:1-9 (ESV)
Create in me a\xa0clean heart, O God, and\xa0renew a right\xa0spirit within me. 11\xa0Cast me not away from your presence, and take not\xa0your Holy Spirit from me. 12\xa0Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 (ESV)
13\xa0Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will\xa0return to you. 14\xa0Deliver me from\xa0blood guiltiness, O God,\xa0O\xa0God of my salvation, and\xa0my tongue will sing aloud of your\xa0righteousness. 15\xa0O Lord, open my lips,\xa0and my mouth will declare your praise. 16\xa0For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17\xa0The sacrifices of God are\xa0a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:13-17
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem; 19\xa0then will you delight in\xa0right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and\xa0whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar. Psalm 51:1-19 (ESV)
Know that\xa0the\xa0Lord, he is God! It is he who\xa0made us, and\xa0we are his; we are his\xa0people, and\xa0the sheep of his pasture.4\xa0Enter his gates with thanksgiving,\xa0and his\xa0courts with praise! Give thanks to him;\xa0bless his name! 5\xa0For the\xa0Lord\xa0is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his\xa0faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 100:3-5(ESV)