Bible verse
When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
2 Samuel 11:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Samuel 11.
22 So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
23 The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
25 Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
27 And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
KJV
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
ASV
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
ERV
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
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