David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned forty years.  He reigned in Hebron upon Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years upon all Israel and Judah.  David then made him a dwelling-place in the hill of Sion in Jerusalem.  And after this the Philistines made war against him, but he oft overthrew them and slew many of them, and made them tributary to him, and after brought the ark of God in Jerusalem, and set it in his house.  After this yet the Philistines made war again unto him and other kings were aiding and helping them against David, whom David overcame and slew and put under.

And on a time when Joab was out with his men of war lying at a siege tofore a city, David was at home, and walked in his chamber, and as he looked out at a window he saw a fair woman wash her and bain her in her chamber, which stood against his house, and demanded of his servants who she was, and they said she was Uriah’s wife.  And David sent letters to Joab and bade him to send home to him Uriah; and Joab sent Uriah to David, and David demanded how the host was ruled, and after bade him go home to his house and wash his feet.  And Uriah went thence, and the king sent to him his dish with meat.  Uriah would not go home, but lay before the gate of the king’s house with other servants of the king’s.  And it was told to the king that Uriah went not home, and then David said to Uriah:  Thou comest from a far way, why goest thou not home?  And Uriah said to David:  The ark of God and Israel and Judah be in the pavilions, and my lord Joab and the servants of thee, my lord, lie on the ground, and would ye that I should go to my house?  By thy health and by the health of my soul I shall not do so.  Then David said to Uriah, Abide here then this night, and to-morrow I shall deliver thee.  Uriah abode there that day and the next, and David made him eat tofore him and made him drunk, yet for all that he would not go home, but lay with the servants of David.  Then on the morn David wrote a letter to Joab, that he should set Uriah in the weakest place of the battle and where most jeopardy was, and that he should be left there that he might be slain.  And Uriah bare this letter to Joab, and it was so done as David had written, and Uriah was slain in the battle.  And Joab sent word to David how they had fought, and how Uriah was slain and dead.  When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned and wailed him; and after the mourning David sent for her and wedded her, and she bare him a son.  And this that David had committed on Uriah displeased greatly our Lord.