2 Samuel 11:21-23

Living Bible

^19-21 he told his messenger, “If the king is angry and asks, ‘Why did the troops go so close to the city? Didn’t they know there would be shooting from the walls? Wasn’t Abimelech killed at Thebez by a woman who threw down a millstone on him?’—then tell him, ‘Uriah was killed too.’”

²² So the messenger arrived at Jerusalem and gave the report to David.

²³ “The enemy came out against us,” he said, “and as we chased them back to the city gates,