2 Samuel 11:22
“So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.”
And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
Related Verses
“Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;”
“And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.”
“And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,”
“And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.”
“And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.”