Uriah the Hittite was the husband of Bathsheba and one of King David's best soldiers. When David committed adultery with Uriah's wife and she became pregnant, he tried to get Uriah to go home and sleep with his wife to conceal the extramarital affair. Unfortunately for David, Uriah was too loyal of a soldier to do such a thing, and wouldn't even go home when David got him drunk. So he was sent back to the battlefront with a letter to Joab his commanding officer, ordering him to put Uriah in the heat of the battle so that he may be killed. Joab put Uriah with the most valiant men on the front line, and there was where he died.
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