Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle,
The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces; some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.
and he instructed the messenger, “After you have told the king all about the battle,
When Jehu was told that the heads of Ahab's descendants had been brought, he ordered them to be piled up in two heaps at the city gate and to be left there until the following morning.