21. Surely he remembers that at Thebez a woman killed Abimelech son of Jerub Besheth when she threw the top part of a grinding stone down from the wall. So why did he go that close to the wall?’ If King David says something like that, tell him, ‘Your officer, Uriah the Hittite, also died.’”
22. The messenger went in and told David everything Joab told him to say.
23. The messenger told David, “The men of Ammon attacked us in the field. We fought them and chased them all the way to the city gate.
24. Then the men on the city wall shot arrows at your officers. Some of your officers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.”