“Well, stay here today,” David told him, “and tomorrow you may return to the army.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn’t get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.
“They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness, letting it melt under their tongue.
In despair, you will be led into exile with your hands on your heads, for the Lord has rejected the nations you trust. They will not help you at all.