2 Samuel 11:20

A Conservative Version

it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he says to thee, Why did ye go so near to the city to fight? Did ye not know that they would shoot from the wall?

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:19

And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,

2 Samuel 11:21

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did ye go so near the wall? Then thou shall say, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.