[25] Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage [26] And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. [27] And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done the LORD.