⁹ Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider^[a] evil?^(A) You struck down Uriah^(B) the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.^(C)

¹⁹ The king said to Ittai of Gath,^(A) “Why are you also going with us? Go back and stay with the new king since you’re both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.