Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting,
The men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite was killed as well.
and he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting,
When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”