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But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

When they told David that Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, "Have you not returned from traveling a long way? Why did you not go down to your house?"

David called him, and he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. In the evening Uriah went out to lie on his bed with his lord's servants. He did not go down to his house.

When the time of sorrow was finished, David sent men and brought her to his house. She became his wife, and gave birth to his son. But what David had done was sinful in the eyes of the Lord.

But the poor man had nothing except one little female lamb which he bought and fed. It grew up together with him and his children. It would eat his bread and drink from his cup and lie in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

Now a traveler came to the rich man. But the rich man was not willing to take from his own flock or his own cattle, to make food for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man's female lamb and made it ready for the man who had come to him."

Why have you hated the Word of the Lord by doing what is bad in His eyes? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword. You have taken his wife to be your wife. You have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

The leaders of his family stood beside him to lift him up from the ground. But David was not willing. He would not eat food with them.

But when David saw his servants speaking together in secret, he understood that the child was dead. He asked his servants, "Is the child dead?" And they said, "He is dead."

So David got up from the ground, washed, poured oil on himself, and changed his clothes. Then he came into the house of the Lord and worshiped. He returned to his own house and asked for food. So they set food in front of him, and he ate.

Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? While the child was alive, you went without food and cried. But when the child died, you got up and ate food."

Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went in and lay with her, and she gave birth to a son. He gave him the name Solomon. The Lord loved him,

Amnon was so troubled because of his sister Tamar that he became sick. She was a woman who had never had a man, and Amnon thought how hard it would be to have her.

Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food to my room, so I may eat from your hand." So Tamar took the loaves she had made and brought them to her brother Amnon in his room.

But Absalom did not speak good or bad to Amnon. Absalom hated Amnon because he had put his sister to shame.

He came to the king and said, "See, your servant has men to cut the wool from the sheep. Let the king and his men go with your servant."

Then Absalom told his servants, "Watch when Amnon's heart is happy with wine. When I say to you, ‘Kill Amnon,' then put him to death. Do not be afraid. Have not I myself told you to do it? Have strength of heart."

The king got up and tore his clothes, and lay on the ground. And all his servants standing beside him tore their clothes.

But Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shimeah, said, "Do not let my lord think they have killed all the young men, the king's sons. Only Amnon is dead. Absalom has wanted to kill him since the day he put his sister Tamar to shame.

As soon as he had finished speaking, the king's sons came and cried in a loud voice. The king and all his servants cried also.