2 Samuel / Question
After Uriah’s death and David’s marriage to Bathsheba, the narrative states that David’s deed “displeased the LORD.” This line functions as the text’s direct evaluation of the situation. See 2 Samuel 11:27.
After Uriah’s death, his wife hears the news and performs the expected mourning for her husband. Once the mourning period ends, David sends for her, brings her into his household, and marries her; she then gives birth to a son. The narrator closes the episode with a blunt evaluation: what David did was not acceptable to Yahweh. These verses conclude the larger story in 2 Samuel 11:1–27, where David’s actions escalate from desire to adultery to arranging Uriah’s death through battlefield orders.
These verses close the Uriah episode by narrating three outwardly ordinary events—mourning, remarriage, and childbirth—followed by an extraordinary divine evaluation. Bathsheba is still identified as “Uriah’s wife” when she hears the news, and her lament is presented as a real response to a real death.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with 2 Samuel 11:27, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
27When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.