1And when the yeere was expired in the time when Kinges goe forth to battell, Dauid sent Ioab, and his seruantes with him, and all Israel, who destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but Dauid remayned in Ierusalem.

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1 Chronicles 20:1, 1 Chronicles 20:1, 1 Kings 20:26, 1 Kings 20:26, 1 Kings 20:22

2And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.

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Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:28, Psalms 119:37, Psalms 119:37, Proverbs 6:25

3And Dauid sent and inquired what woman it was: and one sayde, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to Vriah the Hittite?

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2 Samuel 23:39, 2 Samuel 23:39, 1 Chronicles 3:5, 1 Chronicles 3:5, Jeremiah 5:8

4Then Dauid sent messengers, and tooke her away: and she came vnto him and he lay with her: (now she was purified from her vncleannes) and she returned vnto her house.

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Leviticus 18:19, Leviticus 18:19, James 1:14, James 1:15, James 1:14

5And the woman conceiued: therefore shee sent and tolde Dauid, and sayd, I am with childe.

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Deuteronomy 22:22, Deuteronomy 22:22, Proverbs 6:34, Proverbs 6:34

6Then Dauid sent to Ioab, saying, Send me Vriah the Hittite. And Ioab sent Vriah to Dauid.

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Proverbs 28:13, Proverbs 28:13, Matthew 26:70, Isaiah 29:13, Job 20:12

7And when Vriah came vnto him, Dauid demanded him how Ioab did, and howe the people fared, and how the warre prospered.

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Genesis 37:14, 1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 37:14, 1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 29:6

8Afterward Dauid said to Vriah, Go downe to thine house, and wash thy feete. So Vriah departed out of the Kings palace, and the king sent a present after him.

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Genesis 18:4, Genesis 18:4, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 44:21, Hebrews 4:13

9But Vriah slept at the doore of the Kings palace with all the seruants of his lord, and went not downe to his house.

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Job 5:12, Job 5:14, Proverbs 21:30, Job 5:12, Job 5:14

10Then they tolde Dauid, saying, Vriah went not downe to his house: and Dauid saide vnto Vriah, Commest thou not from thy iourney? why didst thou not go downe to thine house?

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11Then Vriah answered Dauid, The Arke and Israel, and Iudah dwell in tents: and my lord Ioab and the seruants of my lord abide in the open fields: shall I then go into mine house to eate and drinke, and lie with my wife? by thy life, and by the life of thy soule, I will not do this thing.

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2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 7:6, 2 Samuel 20:6, 2 Samuel 7:6

12Then Dauid sayd vnto Vriah, Tary yet this day, and to morow I will send thee away. So Vriah abode in Ierusalem that day, and the morowe.

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Jeremiah 2:22, Jeremiah 2:23, Jeremiah 2:37, Jeremiah 2:22, Jeremiah 2:23

13Then Dauid called him, and hee did eate and drinke before him, and he made him drunke: and at euen he went out to lie on his couch with the seruants of his Lord, but went not downe to his house.

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Habakkuk 2:15, Habakkuk 2:15, Genesis 19:32, Genesis 19:35, Genesis 19:32

14And on the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.

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1 Kings 21:8, 1 Kings 21:10, 1 Kings 21:8, 1 Kings 21:10, Psalms 52:2

15And he wrote thus in the letter, Put ye Vriah in the forefront of the strength of the battell, and recule ye backe from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

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2 Samuel 12:9, 2 Samuel 12:9, 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 11:17

16So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Vriah vnto a place, where he knewe that strong men were.

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2 Kings 10:6, 1 Kings 2:31, 1 Kings 2:34, Hosea 5:11, 2 Samuel 3:27

17And the men of the citie came out, and fought with Ioab: and there fell of the people of the seruants of Dauid, and Vriah the Hittite also dyed.

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2 Samuel 12:9, Psalms 51:14, 2 Samuel 12:9, Psalms 51:14

18Then Ioab sent and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre,

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19And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling all the matters of the warre vnto the King,

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20And if the kings anger arise, so that he say vnto thee, Wherefore approched ye vnto the citie to fight? knewe ye not that they would hurle from the wall?

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21Who smote Abimelech sonne of Ierubesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon him from the wall, and he died in Thebez? why went you nie the wall? Then say thou, Thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.

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Judges 7:1, Judges 9:50, Judges 9:54, Judges 7:1, Judges 9:50

22So the messenger went, and came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for.

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23And the messenger said vnto Dauid, Certainely the men preuailed against vs, and came out vnto vs into the field, but we pursued them vnto the entring of the gate.

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24But the shooters shot from ye wall against thy seruants, and some of the Kings seruants be dead: and thy seruant Vriah the Hittite is also dead.

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25Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing trouble thee: for the sworde deuoureth one as well as another: make thy battell more strong against the citie and destroy it, and encourage thou him.

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1 Samuel 6:9, Ecclesiastes 9:1, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Joshua 7:8, Joshua 7:9

26And when the wife of Vriah heard that her husband Vriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.

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Genesis 27:41, 2 Samuel 14:2, 2 Samuel 3:31, Genesis 27:41, 2 Samuel 14:2

27So when the mourning was past, Dauid sent and tooke her into his house, and shee became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but ye thing that Dauid had done, displeased the Lord.

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Psalms 51:4, Psalms 51:5, 2 Samuel 12:9, Psalms 51:4, Psalms 51:5