Bathsheba's husband, one of David's elite warriors, and the man David had killed to conceal an adultery (2 Samuel 11). ⚠ The narrative is unsparing about the method: David recalls him from the front hoping he will sleep with his wife and cover the pregnancy; Uriah refuses to go home while the ark and the army are in the field, sleeping at the palace door instead. So David sends him back carrying his own death warrant — the letter instructing Joab to abandon him in battle. He is listed among 'the thirty', David's best men, in the very last verse of 2 Samuel 23. Psalm 51:16 asks to be rescued from DAMIM, blood in the plural: shed blood, and the guilt owed for it.