2 Samuel 11:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

he may get angry and ask, “Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:19

He gave the messenger these orders: When you finish telling the king everything that has happened,

2 Samuel 11:21

Don't you know how Abimelech the son of Gideon was killed at Thebez? Didn't a woman kill him by dropping a large rock from the top of the city wall? Why did you go so close to the city walls?” Then you tell him, “One of your soldiers who was killed was Uriah the Hittite.”