2 Samuel 11:25

Plain English Version

David heard it and said, “Go back and say this to Joab, ‘Don’t be upset about this. Fighting a war is like that. Some die, some stay alive. Keep going. Keep attacking the town. Knock all the houses down.’ Tell Joab that message, so he will not get upset.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:24

Then their soldiers on the wall of the town shot arrows at us from close up. They killed dead some of your soldiers. One of them was Uriah, he is dead too.”

2 Samuel 11:26

Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba, heard the bad news that her husband was dead, and she cried for him.