Then withdraw, leave him alone, so he will be struck down, and will die. Uriah took the message back, carried his own death sentence. Uriah the Hittite, the Hireling, the Hessian. He will not read the letter. He had too much integrity.
Integrity can get a man killed.
Uriah died in battle. Of course, Bathsheba mourned. I took her in as a wife. Taking in a lonely widow. And I said to myself, End of story.