Uriah the Hittite his feet," meaning to spend time at home and attend to his wife. Uriah refused, claiming a code of honor with his fellow warriors while they were in battle. It was common for warriors in preparation for battle to abstain from sex, as a practice of discipline. After Uriah repeatedly refused to see his wife Bathsheba, David sent him to his commanding officer Joab with a letter that ordered Joab to put Uriah on the front lines of the battle and have the other soldiers move away from him so that he would be killed by enemy soldiers. Despite Uriah's
Naamah (wife of Solomon) Naamah (wife of Solomon) Naamah ("pleasant") was an ancient queen consort, wife of King Solomon and mother of his heir Rehoboam, according to both , and in the Hebrew Bible. She was an Ammonite, and the only one of all the Queens Mother of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner. She was also the only one of Solomon's wives to be mentioned, within the Hebrew Bible, as having borne a child. Naamah is praised in "Bava Kamma" 38b for her righteousness, on account of which Moses had previously been warned by God not to make war upon the Ammonites,