2 Samuel 11:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I will send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.

¹³ And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.

¹⁴ And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,