Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,
Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
and charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king,
Then a messenger came 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 morning.”