Samuel 11 -

The knowledge should have been a door closing. Instead, David sent messengers to bring her. It was a command disguised as a summons. A king does not ask. Bathsheba came. And the king took her.

A messenger rode back to Jerusalem with the news of the battle. “The enemy came out against us,” he reported. “Some of the king’s servants are dead. Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.” samuel 11

But Uriah did not go home. He slept at the palace gate, wrapped in his cloak, with the king’s servants. The knowledge should have been a door closing