And when they had told David, saying, Uri´ah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uri´ah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
And king Rehobo´am made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.