At the end of the year, when David sent out Joab to do battle and defeat the children of Ammon, David was alone at his house. He went out to the rooftop because he couldn't sleep one night. While he was there, he saw a woman taking a bath.
He asked around to find out who she was. She was Uriah's wife, Bathsheba. He sent for her, and she came and had sex with him. This union impregnated her. So, David sent a messenger to the battlefield for Uriah.
The plan was to get Uriah back so he could sleep with his wife and think the baby was his. But, Uriah did not go home like he was told to. Instead, he slept at David's house with his servants.
David asked him why. Uriah said, "All your men are at battle. I should be at battle for my king. I won't be having a good time while we are at war and I should be fighting!"
David tried to get him drunk, but that didn't work either. So, David sent him back, and told Joab to put Uriah on the front lines, hoping he would get killed, so he would never find out about the baby.
Soon, Uriah was dead. Joab sent a messenger to tell David. David told the messenger to tell Joab to keep up the good fight, and then he married Bathsheba and she had the child.
But God was not pleased with what David had done.
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The lesson I got from this is that if you want to please God, you can't do underhanded things to hide your sin. Had David taken responsibility for his sin, things may have been different. Instead, he murdered a man to hide his sin, and that was wrong.
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