2 Samuel 11:18-21 ▼

18 Then Joab sent word to David about everything that had happened at the battle.

19 He instructed the courier, |When you have finished conveying all the news about the battle to the king,

20 if the king starts to get angry and asks you, 'Why did you get so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot from the wall?

21 Who killed Jerubbesheth's son Abimelech? Didn't a woman kill him by throwing an upper millstone on him from the wall at Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?' then tell him, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'|