2 Samuel 11:20

Easy To Read Version

“Maybe the king will become upset. Maybe the king will ask, ‘Why did Joab’s army go that close the city to fight? Surely he knows that there are men on the city walls who can shoot arrows down at his men?

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:19

Joab told the messenger to tell King David what had happened in the battle.

2 Samuel 11:21

Surely he remembers that a woman killed Abimelech son of Jerub Besheth? It was at Thebez. The woman was on the city wall and threw the top part of a grinding stone down on Abimelech. So why did he go that close to the wall?’ {If King David says something like that}, then you must tell him this message: ‘Your officer Uriah the Hittite also died.’”