Then Joab sent and told David all the events of the war.
And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David’s servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.
And he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,
Then the messenger came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” So he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”