So David sent someone to inquire about her, and he said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba,(A) daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah(B) the Hethite?” [a]

David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness.(C) Afterward, she returned home. The woman conceived and sent word to inform David, “I am pregnant.”

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Footnotes

  1. 11:3 DSS add Joab’s armor-bearer

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