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18 Then Joab sent and told David all that took place in the battle: 19 And Joab charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished telling everything which took place in the battle to the king, 20 And if the king's wrath rise and he say to you, Why did you approach so near to the city to fight against it? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who killed Abimeleck the son of Nedo-baal? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died? Why did you go near the wall? Now if he should say these things to you, then you shall say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 22 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had charged him to say. 23 And the messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us and came out against us into the field, and we chased them back to the entrance of the city. 24 And the archers shot from the wall; and some of your servants died, O king! And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 2 Samuel 11:18-24, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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