Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
And charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished telling the matters of the war unto the king,
And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.