World English Bible
2 Samuel 11:26
“When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.”
Verse in context — 2 Samuel 11
24
The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
25
Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him.
26
When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27
When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
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David’s reign as king, his triumphs and failures, and God’s covenant with him.
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