ok i found this text to summarise 2 sam 11. do read it as if it was written by King David himself ok?
"...I sent Joab against the Ammonites again. (You know these people as the Jordanians.) I stayed behind in Jerusalem and one night as I was gazing out over the city I saw the most beautiful woman I could ever imagine, bathing on her rooftop. I found out that her name was Bathsheba, the wife of Urriah the Hittite, one of my soldiers. It didn't matter to me. I knew immediately that I had to have her. This wasn't just some arrogant King taking someone's wife because he could. This was a man willing to risk everything for the love of a woman he couldn't live without. I sent for her and immediately we fell into each other's arms. It was a night I'll never forget.
Shortly thereafter she sent word that she was pregnant. In a panic I summoned her husband, thinking that if he came home for a day or two it would appear that the baby was his. But he refused to take comfort in his wife's arms while his comrades were out in the battle lines. So I sent him back and arranged with his commanders to place him at the most dangerous part of the battle and then abandon him so the enemy soldiers would kill him. They did and Urriah was killed. After a suitable mourning period, Bathsheba and I were married."
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