2 Samuel 11:2-26

It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was
walking about on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a
woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.  David sent someone to
inquire about the woman.  It was reported, "This is Bathsheba daughter of
Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite."  So David sent messengers to get
her, and she came to him, and he lay with her.  (Now she was purifying
herself after her period.)  Then she returned to her house.  The woman
conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant."

So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite."  And Joab sent
Uriah to David.  When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the
people fared, and how the war was going.  Then David said to Uriah, "Go
down to your house, and wash your feet."  Uriah went out of the king's
house, and there followed him a present from the king.  But Uriah slept at
the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and
did not go down to his house.  When they told David, "Uriah did not go
down to his house," David said to Uriah, "You have just come from a
journey.  Why did you not go down to your house?"  Uriah said to David,
"The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths; and my lord Joab and the
servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my
house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife?  As you live, and as
your soul lives, I will not do such a thing."  Then David said to Uriah,
"Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back."  So Uriah
remained in Jerusalem that day.  On the next day, David invited him to eat
and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went
out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go
down to his house.

In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of
Uriah.  In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest
fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and
die."  As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place
where he knew there were valiant warriors.  The men of the city came out
and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people
fell.  Uriah the Hittite was killed as well.  Then Joab sent and told
David all the news about the fighting; and he instructed the messenger,
"When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting,
then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, 'Why did you go so
near the city to fight?  Did you not know that they would shoot from the
wall?  Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbaal?  Did not a woman throw an
upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez?  Why did
you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead too.'"

So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent him
to tell.  The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over
us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the
entrance of the gate.  Then the archers shot at your servants from the
wall; some of the king's servants are dead; and your servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead also."  David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say
to Joab, 'Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now
one and now another; press your attack on the city, and overthrow it.'
And encourage him."

When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made
lamentation for him.