2 Samuel 11:20

New American Bible - revised edition

the king may become angry and say to you: ‘Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall above?

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:19

instructing the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,

2 Samuel 11:21

Who killed Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal? Was it not a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall above, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’ Then you in turn are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”