2 Samuel 11:18-20

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war.

¹⁹ And he charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the matters of the war to the king,

²⁰ “and if the king’s anger arises, so that he says to you, ‘Why did you approach the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?