Uriah the Hittite
David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Uriah the Hittite is one of the thirty. (2 Samuel 23:39) He is killed by David with the sword of the Ammonites to cover up his affair with Bathsheba that ended in pregnancy. (2 Samuel 11-12)
He was killed at the wall of Rabbah by the Ammonites, as Israel is described as besieging Rabbah (2 Samuel 11:1), Joab was described as "besieging the city" when he assigned Uriah to his death (2 Samuel 11:16), David tells Joab to take that city (2 Samuel 11:25), and Joab fights against Rabbah of the Ammonites and takes the royal city (2 Samuel 12:26) The LORD through Nathan says Uriah was killed with the sword of the Ammonites (2 Samuel 12:9). Maybe this is overkill, but they just said "the city" and I got confused.
In the spring of the year when the kings go out to battle, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel and remained at Jerusalem. They ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.
David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite."
David asked Uriah how he was doing, how the people were doing, and how the war was going. He had him go down to his house to wash his feet and sent him a present. But people told David Uriah did not go to his house, instead sleeping at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord.
David insisted he go to his house, but Uriah refused, saying, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."
David had him stay another day and eat in his presence and get drunk. Still, he lay on the couch with the servants of his lord. Since he did not go home, he had Uriah hand-deliver a letter to Joab, saying, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die."
As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. The men came out and fought, and some servants of David fell, and Uriah died.
Because David killed Uriah with the sword and took Bathsheba, the sword shall never depart from his house
The LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
David replied in anger against the man, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”
And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”