⁴ Then David sent messengers to get her.^(A) She came to him, and he slept^(B) with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.)^(C) Then she went back home.

¹⁵ In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down^(A) and die.^(B)”

⁹ Why did you despise^(A) the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down^(B) Uriah^(C) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed^(D) him with the sword of the Ammonites.