And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? Why didst thou not go down to thy house?
And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk. And he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord; and went not down into his house.
And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.
And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.