The messenger set out, and on his arrival he reported to David everything Joab had sent him to tell.
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.’”
He told David: “The men had the advantage over us and came out into the open against us, but we pushed them back to the entrance of the city gate.