2 Samuel 11:14-16

Living Bible

¹⁴ Finally the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver. ¹⁵ The letter instructed Joab to put Uriah at the front of the hottest part of the battle—and then pull back and leave him there to die! ¹⁶ So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the besieged city where he knew that the enemies’ best men were fighting;