When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk.
At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.”
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.