⁴ So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (^(A)Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

¹⁵ In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, ^(A)that he may be struck down, and die.”

^9 (A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, ^(B)to do what is evil in his sight? ^(C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ^(D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.